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A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest extract   poetry   "Not a sound disturbs the air,"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1925... 1925 A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest
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Notes

  • Epigraph: And far and free this man of men,/ With wintry hair and wasted feature, / Had fellowhip with gorge and glen,/ And learned the loves and runes of Nature. Kendall.
  • This extract omits lines 13 - 22 and 25 - 28 from the 42 line version. Some textual variations appear.

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A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest i "Not a bird disturbs the air,", Charles Harpur , 1851 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Empire , 27 May 1851; (p. 479)
— Appears in: The Empire , 28 January 1858; (p. 4)
— Appears in: The Empire , 31 July no. 3375 1862; (p. 8)
— Appears in: Poems 1883; (p. 118-119) The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1918; (p. 8-10) An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems 1927; (p. 38-39) The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1945; (p. 5-7) An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems 1946; (p. 38-39) The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1950; (p. 3-4)
— Appears in: An Anthology of Australian Literature 1995; (p. 8)
— Appears in: Classic Australian Verse 2001; (p. 33-34)
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