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Preface | 11 |
This Book | 15 |
songs of the army of the night. |
Proem:—“Outside London” | 18 |
part i.—england. |
In the Camp | 19 |
“Axiom” | 20 |
Drill | 20 |
Evening Hymn in the Hovels | 21 |
In the Street: “Lord Shaftesbury” | 22 |
“Liberty” | 22 |
In the Edgware Road | 24 |
To the Girls of the Unions | 24 |
Hagar | 25 |
“Why?” | 26 |
A Visitor in the Camp | 27 |
“Lord Leitrim” | 28 |
“Anarchism” | 28 |
Belgravia by Night: “Move on!” | 29 |
Jesus | 29 |
Parallels for the Pious | 30 |
“Prayer” | 30 |
To the Christians | 31 |
“Defeat” | 31 |
To John Ruskin | 32 |
To the Emperor William | 34 |
Song of the Dispossessed: “To Jesus” | 34 |
Art | 35 |
The Peasants’ Revolt | 35 |
“Analogy” | 37 |
In Trafalgar Square | 37 |
A Street Fight | 37 |
To a Workman, a would-be Suicide | 39 |
Dublin at Dawn | 40 |
The Caged Eagle | 41 |
To Ireland | 42 |
To Charles Parnell | 42 |
An “Assassin” | 43 |
Russia | 44 |
PÈre-la-Chaise | 45 |
Aux Ternes | 46 |
“The Truth” | 47 |
To the Sons of Labour | 48 |
To the Artists | 49 |
“One among so Many” | 50 |
The New Locksley Hall | 52 |
Farewell to the Market: “Susannah and Mary-Jane” | 58 |
part ii.—here and there. |
In the Pit: “Chant of the Firemen” | 60 |
A Mahommadan Ship Fireman | 61 |
To India | 61 |
To England: | |
I. “There was a time” | 61 |
II. “We hate you” | 62 |
III. “I whom you fed with shame” | 62 |
IV. “England, the Land I loved” | 63 |
Hong Kong Lyrics: | |
I. “At Anchor in that Harbour” | 64 |
II. “There is much in this Sea-way City” | 65 |
III. “I stand and watch the Soldiers” | 65 |
IV. “Happy Valley” | 66 |
A Glimpse of China: | |
I. In a Sampan | 67 |
II. In a Chair | 67 |
III. “Caste” | 68 |
IV. Over the Samovar | 69 |
To Japan | 70 |
Dai Butsu | 70 |
“England” | 71 |
The Fisherman | 71 |
A South-Sea Islander | 72 |
New Summer Converts | 72 |
A Death at Sea: | |
I. “Dead in the Sheep-Pen” | 73 |
II. “In the Warm, Cloudy Night” | 74 |
III. “Dirge” | 74 |
part iii.—australia. |
The Outcasts | 75 |
James Moorhouse | 75 |
In the Sea Gardens: “The Man of the Nation” | 78 |
“Upstarts” | 79 |
Labour—Capital—Land | 79 |
Australia | 80 |
Art | 80 |
“Henry George” | 81 |
William Wallace | 83 |
The Australian Flag | 83 |
To an Old Friend in England: “Esau” | 84 |
At the Seamen’s Union: “The Seamen and the Miners” | 84 |
To His Love | 85 |
Her Poem: “My Baby Girl that was born and died on the same day” | 86 |
To Henry George in America | 86 |
“Algernon Charles Swinburne” | 87 |
To an Unionist | 88 |
To my Friend, Sydney Jephcott | 89 |
To E. L. Zox | 89 |
“Father Abe”: Song of the American Sons of Labour | 90 |
“A Fool” | 93 |
Mount Rennie: | |
I. The Australian Press speaks | 95 |
II. The Time-Spirit speaks | 97 |
“Tyranny”: The Delegates speak | 97 |
From a Verandah: “Armageddon” | 98 |
“Elsie”—A Memory | 99 |
“Nationalism and M’Ilwraith” | 99 |
To the Emperor William | 100 |
A Story | 101 |
At the India Docks | 103 |
Dirge: “A Little Soldier of the Army of the Night” | 108 |
To Queen Victoria in England | 109 |
Farewell to the Children | 111 |
Epode: On the Ranges, Queensland | 113 |
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Australian Press Notices | 116 |