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Gordon, Adam Lindsay (1833 - 1870)

Index to poems

  1. A Basket of Flowers
  2. Cui Bono
  3. Fauconshawe
  4. Gone
  5. How We Beat The Favourite
  6. A Hunting Song
  7. The Last Leap
  8. No Name
  9. The Sick Stockrider
  10. The Song of the Surf
  11. Sunlight on the Sea
  12. To A Proud Beauty
  13. Unshriven
  14. Ye Wearie Wayfarer Hys Ballad. Fytte 5. Lex Talionis
  15. Ye Wearie Wayfarer Hys Ballad. Fytte I. By Wood and Wold
Biography: 
  • Adam Lindsay Gordon letters: State Library of New South Wales, copies at Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
  • Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. 1870.
  • --Poems. Ed. Robert A. Thompson. London and Melbourne: A. H. Massina, 1920.
  • --Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore, 1867. Google Books.
  • Humphris, Edith. and Douglas Sladen. Adam Lindsay Gordon and his Friends in England and Australia (London: Constable, 1912.
  • Kramer, Leonie. "Gordon, Adam Lindsay (1833-1870)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Melbourne University Press, 1972.
  • Moir, J.K. A Chronology of the Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon. State Library of Victoria.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

Given Name: 
Adam Lindsay
Family Name: 
Gordon
Birth Date: 
October 19, 1833
Death Date: 
June 24, 1870
Nationality: 
Australian
Ethnicity: 
Scottish
Family Relations: 
father : Adam Durnford Gordon
father : Harriet Gordon
husband : Margaret Park
son : Annie Lindsay Gordon

Education

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Colonial
Literary Movement: 
Unknown

Illness

Cause of Death: 
Suicide by gunshot wound
Buried At: 
Brighton General Cemetery
First RPO Edition: 
2012
Editors: 
Cameron La Follette