Heart of Spring
Shaw Neilson
58 chapters · 1 h 41 min · English
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John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was nine years of age. The boy had little schooling and early went to work in the hard way of the Bush.
His poems were long meditated and slowly brought to utterance. His equipment was a few books well conned, and the strong blood and high heart of his Scottish ancestry.
(From the Book's Preface)
Chapters
1 Preface 5 min 2 Heart of Spring! 2 min 3 Green Singer 1 min 4 Song Be Delicate 1 min 5 Petticoat Green 3 min 6 Greeting 1 min 7 The Land Where I Was Born 2 min 8 The Sun Is Up 1 min 9 Pale Neighbour 1 min 10 To A Blue Flower 1 min 11 Old Nell Dickerson 3 min 12 Bush Scene 1 min 13 Julie Callaway 3 min 14 Lowan's Nest 1 min 15 Old Granny Sullivan 4 min 16 May 1 min 17 Maggie Tulliver 2 min 18 Break of Day 1 min 19 Little Dead Milliner 2 min 20 The Day Is Thine 2 min 21 Sheedy Was Dying 2 min 22 The Eyes of Little Charlotte 2 min 23 Meeting of Sighs 1 min 24 Old Violin 1 min 25 Love's Coming 1 min 26 The Lover Sings 2 min 27 The Girl With The Black Hair 1 min 28 'Twas In The Early Summer Time 2 min 29 As Far As My Heart Can Go 1 min 30 Her Eyes 1 min 31 The Heart Longs 2 min 32 The Hour Is Lost 1 min 33 Surely God Was A Lover 1 min 34 You, And Yellow Air 2 min 35 Dear Little Cottage 2 min 36 Roses Three 1 min 37 The Sacrifice 2 min 38 Little White Girl 1 min 39 In The Street 2 min 40 Child of Tears 2 min 41 The Petticoat Plays 1 min 42 The Loving Tree 3 min 43 Inland Born 4 min 44 The Child We Lost 3 min 45 Under A Kurrajong 1 min 46 The Luckless Bard To The Flying Blossom 1 min 47 From A Coffin 1 min 48 All The World's A Lolly-Shop 2 min 49 It Is The Last 2 min 50 The White Flowers Came 2 min 51 The Wedding In September 3 min 52 The Hour of the Parting 1 min 53 O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers! 1 min 54 The Song and the Bird 1 min 55 The Scent O' The Lover 1 min 56 At The End Of Spring 1 min 57 For A Child 1 min 58 The Dream Is Deep 1 min
