Gordon, Adam Lindsay

Gordon, Adam Lindsay (1833 - 1870)

Index to poems
  1. A Hunting Song
  2. A Basket of Flowers
  3. Cui Bono
  4. Fauconshawe
  5. Gone
  6. How We Beat The Favourite
  7. No Name
  8. Sunlight on the Sea
  9. The Last Leap
  10. The Sick Stockrider
  11. The Song of the Surf
  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
Religion
Honours
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