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'Frederick' 'Frederick' i(A14949 works by)
Writing name for: George Frederick Poole
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1 The Three-Mile Scrub i "I know a dell where weeds grow rank,", 'Frederick' , 1851 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 22 February 1851; (p. 4) Exalts the 'Three-Mile Scrub', an area of rainforest which then existed just to the north-west of Brisbane town.
1 The Chinaman Transmogrified : A Goatish Tale i "The murmuring tide was falling fast, and sultry was the day,", 'Frederick' , 1851 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 8 March 1851; (p. 4) A somewhat racist poem in which a dead goat found floating in the Brisbane River is mistaken for the corpse of a Chinese immigrant labourer. The poem was undoubtedly inspired by the debate on Chinese labour which ran in the Australian colonies at this time, but it also touched on the feral goat problem which then existed in Brisbane.
1 The Welcoming : To the Immigrants Per 'Fortitude' i "Hail! strangers, hail! right welcome to our shore,", 'Frederick' , 1849 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 24 February 1849; (p. 3) A welcome to the ca. 250 immigrants who arrived in Moreton Bay on the ship Fortitude in late January 1849. This was the first group of immigrants to arrive in Queensland under the immigration scheme organised by the Rev. John Dunmore Lang (q.v.). The poem paints a highly romantic picture of life in the Australian colonies, which is then contrasted against the supposed deficiencies and injustices of life in Britain.
1 The Deserted Village : Not Goldsmith's : A Dream i "I dreamt-as rhymers often do-", 'Frederick' , 1849 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 21 April 1849; (p. 3) The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 192-194) Humorous poem on proposals to move the Moreton Bay settlement and port from Brisbane to Cleveland, on the shores of Moreton Bay. In his futuristic dream, 'Frederick' returns to a desolate and deserted Brisbane, where, in a state of great consternation, he eventually encounters one last remaining soul, who reassures him that the former inhabitants of the town have not died, but have simply moved to the new settlement at Cleveland Point.
1 Oh What Can Calm? i "Oh what can calm the beating breast", 'Frederick' , 1848 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 29 July 1848; (p. 4) 'Love poem' (Webby)
1 The Petition of Breakfast Creek Bridge : To Captain Wickham, P.M. i "Kind Captain, lend an ear, I pray,", 'Frederick' , 1848 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 5 August 1848; (p. 3) The Moreton Bay Courier , 16 February 1856; (p. 3) Here the dilapidated Breakfast Creek Bridge pleads to be repaired. This work was again published in the Moreton Bay Courier in 1856, during a later round of public protest at the condition of the then second Breakfast Creek Bridge.
1 Old Times in Brisbane : To Nemo i "Why say that joys no longer live,", 'Frederick' , 1848 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 14 October 1848; (p. 4) The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 191) On the economic down-turn which hit Brisbane in the later 1840s. Here 'Frederick' implores 'Nemo' to be more optimistic about the future.
1 North Brisbane Advance! i "'Tis not often we hear of a flourishing town", 'Frederick' , 1848 single work poetry satire
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 23 September 1848; (p. 4) The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 189) Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology 1998; (p. 376-377) An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 2007; (p. 286) On the prosperity and progress of North Brisbane, supposedly attained despite the difficult economic conditions which then prevailed.
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