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The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems

Charles Harpur · 1853

Original text in English.

A verse tragedy about a bushranger, followed by poems on creeks and the echoes of the country.

Poetry · 42 parts · about 30 000 words · about 2 h 13 of reading

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Contents

  1. Act I15 min
  2. Act II9 min
  3. Act III17 min
  4. Act IV14 min
  5. Act V13 min
  6. Note1 min
  7. The Creek of the Four Graves8 min
  8. To the Comet of 18431 min
  9. The Bush Fire5 min
  10. To an Echo on the Banks of the Hunter’2 min
  11. Ned Connor7 min
  12. To the Moon3 min
  13. Memory’s Genesis1 min
  14. Poetry1 min
  15. The Vision of the Rock3 min
  16. Morning1 min
  17. A Poet’s Home5 min
  18. The Voice of the Native Oak1 min
  19. Virginal Love1 min
  20. Eva Gray1 min
  21. To Mary1 min
  22. Emblems1 min
  23. Dreams of the Beloved1 min
  24. Absence1 min
  25. The Enquiry1 min
  26. The Dream by the Fountain3 min
  27. The Master Mariner’s Song. (Outward Bound.)1 min
  28. Freedom in Faith1 min
  29. Finality2 min
  30. Consolation1 min
  31. An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament1 min
  32. My Political Belief1 min
  33. An Anthem for the Australasian League1 min
  34. The Tree of Liberty1 min
  35. Burns5 min
  36. Wordsworth2 min
  37. The Verse of Coleridge’s ‘Christabel.’1 min
  38. To My Young Countryman, D. H. D1 min
  39. Records of Romantic Passion1 min
  40. The Flight of Peace1 min
  41. To My First Born, Washington Harpur1 min
  42. Notes1 min

About this text

Charles Harpur († 1868): public-domain work. The text is that of la transcription établie par Erostrate sur le scan de la State Library of New South Wales (The Bushrangers; a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems, Sydney, W. R. Piddington, 1853). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

Note on the edition (in French): Texte de l'édition originale (Sydney, 1853), d'après l'exemplaire de la State Library of New South Wales (Mitchell Library, exemplaire dédicacé par Henry Kendall à J. L. Michael, fichier 149807820). Deux lectures OCR collationnées, divergences relues. Épigraphes, liste des personnages, dédicace et table non reprises ; Note après la pièce et Notes finales de l'auteur gardées.

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