Poetry of South Africa
Alexander Wilmot
118 chapters · 7 h 6 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Jael Baldwin, Jayson Paul, Robert Schwartz, Nemo, Mark Crowle-Groves and others
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Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1879. Here he collects poetry from various sources in the Cape Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal. Summary by Larry Wilson.
Chapters
1 Preface 5 min 2 The Emigrants 4 min 3 The Bechuana Boy 6 min 4 Afar in the Desert 7 min 5 Evening Rambles 9 min 6 The Lion Hunt 4 min 7 The Lion and the Giraffe 2 min 8 The Desolate Valley 5 min 9 The Coranna 1 min 10 Song of the Wild Bushman 2 min 11 The Captive of Camal 4 min 12 The Brown Hunter's Song 1 min 13 The Bushman 1 min 14 The Cape of Storms 1 min 15 The Hottentot 1 min 16 The Caffer 1 min 17 The Ghona Widow's Lullaby 3 min 18 The Kosa 3 min 19 Makanna's Gathering 2 min 20 The Incantation 2 min 21 The Caffer Commando 2 min 22 The Rock of Reconcilement 3 min 23 The Forester of the Neutral Ground 5 min 24 The Emigrant's Cabin at the Cape 10 min 25 The Volunteers of England 3 min 26 The Dear Old Land 5 min 27 The Funeral in the Abbey 14 min 28 A Farewell to English Friends 2 min 29 A Missionary's Last Farewell to England 11 min 30 A Reminiscence of 1820 5 min 31 Past and Present 3 min 32 A South African Wilderness 3 min 33 A Sunrise Thought at "Cove Rock" 2 min 34 An Ocean Sunset 2 min 35 A Sight from the Shore 1 min 36 The Thunderstorm at Bathurst 4 min 37 A Morning Wish for a Friend 2 min 38 A Night Thought 1 min 39 The Little Shell at Cove Rock 3 min 40 A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden 3 min 41 The Colours of the First 24th 8 min 42 Our Boys 3 min 43 In the Drought Lands of South Africa 3 min 44 The Landing of the British Settlers of 1820 12 min 45 In The Country of Mankoraan 2 min 46 Drink 4 min 47 South Africa Rediviva 2 min 48 The Beautful Island of Dreams 2 min 49 Cape of Good Hope 3 min 50 Good Hope 2 min 51 Ode 2 min 52 After a Storm 1 min 53 Ammap and Griet 3 min 54 Sonnets of the Cape 2 min 55 The Faded Photograph 4 min 56 Eveleen 2 min 57 Farewell to Madeira 3 min 58 Farewell to Fifty-five 5 min 59 Lead, Kindly Light 2 min 60 Should It Be According to Thy Mind 3 min 61 To Graaff Reinet 1 min 62 Hymn 2 min 63 The Lament 2 min 64 My "Salted" Steed 2 min 65 A Romance from the Fields 3 min 66 The Flight of the Amakosa 11 min 67 An Idyl of a Prince 17 min 68 A Christmas Apparition 10 min 69 Freedom's Home 3 min 70 The Gallant "Teuton" 3 min 71 The Sunny Hills of Africa 1 min 72 The Southern Cross 3 min 73 Hon. William Porter, C.M.G 4 min 74 Ode on the British Settlers' Year of Jubilee 7 min 75 Dives Redivivus 2 min 76 The Burghers' Gathering 3 min 77 Storm in Tugela Valley, Natal 1 min 78 The Natal Gold Diggings 3 min 79 Nature 18 min 80 Contentment 2 min 81 Not Here 1 min 82 Revelation XXII 2 min 83 Ezekiel XLVII. 1-12 2 min 84 Change 2 min 85 Heavenly Friendship 1 min 86 Lines Written in an Album 2 min 87 The Defence of Rorke's Drift 12 min 88 Rorke's Drift 4 min 89 Before Ulundi 2 min 90 The Baron's Adventure 2 min 91 South African Courtship 5 min 92 The Better Land 2 min 93 Dolly 2 min 94 Going Home 2 min 95 The Oxford Bible 2 min 96 The Last Mission of the Sails 1 min 97 The Worn-out Sails 2 min 98 In Memoriam 2 min 99 Epitaph on a Diamond Digger 1 min 100 Afric's Greeting 2 min 101 Robert Godlinton 2 min 102 The Diamond Digger 3 min 103 The Last of the Bowkers 3 min 104 The Drunkard's Child 5 min 105 The Angel's Message 6 min 106 The "Churl" of the Period; and Another 6 min 107 Welcome 3 min 108 Precepts for Young and Old 4 min 109 Be Kind to One Another 2 min 110 Paddy's Love Symptoms 2 min 111 Proverbial Philosophy of Humbug 4 min 112 Platteklip Cascade 2 min 113 The Port Elizabeth Pyramid 5 min 114 In Memoriam 1 min 115 Lord! What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him! 2 min 116 The Rhyme of the Ox-wagon 4 min 117 The Cape of Good Hope 2 min 118 The Erythrina Tree' 4 min
