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Dedication: This volume is inscribed
To my Mother.
Loyal alike to your birthland and race whence you sprung, Daughter (and mother of daughters and sons) of the South! As a love-tribute, I proffer stray songs I have sung In my lone hours in these regions of dust and of drouth, Hours that were long, when the singing was solace for cares, Work of some sort the sole spur to the slowness of time,- Cherish the grain, and forgive me for much of the tares, Mother of mine, if aught worthy you find in my rhyme!
And to my Father.
True to the instinct of progress in young blood that runs, True to the best aspirations Australians hold, Built on the cherished traditions that fathers to sons, Britons to Britons, have handed from ages of old, Firm in your love for the new land of children and wife, Grafted on love of the old land of sires and of birth! If, here and there, with your spirit my verses be rife, Maybe that heritage only is all of their worth. Charles Allan Sherard. Charlton, Victoria, 6th May 1889.
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Author's note: The author of this volume has much pleasure in here expressing his sincere thanks to Douglas B. W. Sladen, Esq., LL.B., author of 'Frithjoy and Ingebjorg', etc., and Editor of 'Australian Ballads and Rhymes', and 'Australian Poets, 1788-1888', for kindness in furthering and superintending the Publication hereof.
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A Daughter of the South
1890
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 19 April vol. 49 no. 1554 1890; (p. 864)
— Review of A Daughter of the South and Other Poems 1889 selected work poetry '...There is much that is weak, anti-climactic, and wholly inartistic in this little work; but our business is not so much to find fault with the work of Australian poets - that is easily accomplished - as to winnow the chaff for the infrequent grain of gold, to seek for a promise and a prophecy of the singing-time to come when, as we are told, Australia is to have great poets of her own. There is in Mr Sherard's verse a fire and a swing of rhythm which is not always found in locally-produced rhymes. There are two faults...the frequent references to Greek mythology, which has long been overdone in poetry. In Australian poetry it is incongruous...'
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A Daughter of the South
1890
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 19 April vol. 49 no. 1554 1890; (p. 864)
— Review of A Daughter of the South and Other Poems 1889 selected work poetry '...There is much that is weak, anti-climactic, and wholly inartistic in this little work; but our business is not so much to find fault with the work of Australian poets - that is easily accomplished - as to winnow the chaff for the infrequent grain of gold, to seek for a promise and a prophecy of the singing-time to come when, as we are told, Australia is to have great poets of her own. There is in Mr Sherard's verse a fire and a swing of rhythm which is not always found in locally-produced rhymes. There are two faults...the frequent references to Greek mythology, which has long been overdone in poetry. In Australian poetry it is incongruous...'
