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Opossum Hunting by Moonlight : A Bush Ballad single work   poetry   "Hear ye not the waters beating, where the rapid rivers, meeting"
  • Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1861... 1861 Opossum Hunting by Moonlight : A Bush Ballad
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First line of verse: "Hear ye not the waters beating"
Notes:
In this version the layout is altered compared with the version that appeared in the Illawarra Mercury in June 1861. Additional line returns have been introduced. This version has 12-line stanzas and abbreviates each stanza's refrain.
Alternative title: The Opossum Hunters
First line of verse: "Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting"
Notes:
This version involves a number of significant changes to the earlier versions published in the Illawarra Mercury and the Queanbeyan Golden Age.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems and Songs Henry Kendall , Sydney London : J. R. Clarke Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1862 Z822006 1862 selected work poetry Sydney London : J. R. Clarke Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1862 pg. 98-101
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire 9 June 1862 Z1759483 1862 newspaper issue 1862 pg. 8
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Thomas Thornton Reed (editor), Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 Z571473 1966 selected work poetry This critical edition includes 90 previously uncollected poems and collates manuscripts of the poems and their appearances in periodicals and newspapers during the poet's life-time. There are copious biographical and critical notes, indexes and a bibliography. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 pg. 43-44
Subjects:
  • Bush,
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