Poems


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This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'.
"The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished. The astonishment of those who knew the man, and can gauge the capacity of this city [Melbourne] to foster poetic instinct, is that such work was ever produced here at all. Intensely nervous, and feeling much of that shame at the exercise of the higher intelligence which besets those who are known to be renowned in field sports, Gordon produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them anonymously to magazines. It was not until he discovered one morning that everybody knew a couplet or two of "How we Beat the Favourite" that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a versemaker. The success of his republished "collected" poems gave him courage, and the unreserved praise which greeted "Bush Ballads" should have urged him to forget or to conquer those evil promptings which, unhappily, brought about his untimely death.' - Summary from the Preface.
Note: The dramas (fragment of the Road to Avernus and Ashtaroth) have been left out of this volume. (5 hr 22 min)

Chapters

Preface, by Marcus Clarke 11:30 Read by Larry Wilson
In Memoriam, by Henry Kendall 3:44 Read by Larry Wilson
Podas Okus 7:57 Read by Michele McFarland
Gone 4:02 Read by George Allen
Unshriven 3:00 Read by George Allen
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte I 1:57 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte II 5:21 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte III 3:56 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte IV 8:05 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte V 6:14 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VI 1:40 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VII 8:20 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VIII 9:52 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Borrow'd Plumes 3:38 Read by Jack Albert
A Legend of Madrid 8:01 Read by Michele Fry
Fauconshawe 10:01 Read by Michele McFarland
Rippling Water 5:15 Read by Gaby
Cui Bono 3:07 Read by Diana Schmidt
Bellona 3:54 Read by Diana Schmidt
The Song of the Surf 3:08 Read by Amanda Tekell
Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs 2:29 Read by Michele McFarland
Confiteor 5:32 Read by Anusha Iyer
Sunlight on the Sea 5:10 Read by Gaby
Delilah 3:14 Read by Sonia
From Lightning and Tempest 2:21 Read by Isabel Thiel
Wormwood and Nightshade 7:04 Read by Ryan Finch
Ars Longa 3:50 Read by Michele McFarland
The Last Leap 2:31 Read by Anusha Iyer
Quare Fatigasti 3:29 Read by Anusha Iyer
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part I 10:49 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part II 3:28 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part III 5:22 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part IV 7:27 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part V 14:02 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger 11:34 Read by Sonia
A Dedication 4:53 Read by Jack Albert
The Sick Stockrider 7:57 Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
The Swimmer 8:41 Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
From the Wreck 8:59 Read by Anusha Iyer
No Name 3:33 Read by Chris Bunn
Wolf and Hound 6:12 Read by J. Olpecre
De Te 4:29 Read by realisticspeakers
How we Beat the Favourite 6:55 Read by Diana Schmidt
Doubtful Dreams 7:50 Read by Jack Albert
The Rhyme of Joyous Garde 16:47 Read by Phil Benson
Thora's Song 2:43 Read by Jargoniel
The Three Friends 5:44 Read by Jack Albert
A Song of Autumn 1:22 Read by Julia Niedermaier
Laudamus 3:20 Read by Phil Benson
A Basket of Flowers 3:17 Read by Julia Niedermaier
A Fragment 1:10 Read by Ryan Finch
To My Sister 5:35 Read by Julia Niedermaier
'The Old Leaven' 9:31 Read by Phil Benson
An Exile's Farewell 2:28 Read by Newgatenovelist
'Early Adieux' 4:06 Read by Julia Niedermaier
A Hunting Song 1:38 Read by Diana Schmidt
To a Proud Beauty 1:08 Read by Jack Albert
Thick-headed Thoughts 3:16 Read by Sonia