KINGFISHER
Dropping
Like a splinter from the sky
It knives the water,
Swiftly strikes,
Turns, surges
Up through the splattering surface,
Back to the willow branch,
Where it sits triumphant,
Wet feathers glistening,
Its silver catch
Dangling from its beak.
John Foster
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The Poems of Henry Kendall
by Henry Kendall
[Native-born Australian Poet—1841-1882.]
[Transcriber's Note on text: Lines longer than 78 characters have been broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces. A few obvious errors have been corrected.]
This edition of Kendall contains: (i) The poems included in the three volumes published during the author's lifetime; (ii) Those not reprinted by Kendall, but included in the collected editions of 1886, 1890 and 1903; (iii) Early pieces not hitherto reprinted; (iv) Poems, now first printed, from the Kendall MSS. in the Mitchell Library, the use of which has been kindly permitted by the Trustees. Certain topical skits and other pieces of no value have been omitted.
With biographical note by Bertram Stevens
Contents
Biographical Note
POEMS AND SONGS
Mountains
Kiama
Etheline
Aileen
Kooroora
Fainting by the Way
Song of the Cattle-Hunters
Footfalls
God Help Our Men at Sea
Sitting by the Fire
Bellambi's Maid
The Curlew Song
The Ballad of Tanna
The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door
Urara
Evening Hymn
Stanzas
The Wail in the Native Oak
Harps We Love
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Like a splinter from the sky ... Up through the splattering surface, Back to the willow branch, ... Wet feathers glistening, Its silver ... Dangling from its beak. John Foster