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The Rose River Cycle sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 The Rose River Cycle
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The Rose River Cycle : Song 9 i "They arrange the branches about the nonggaru shade, and the", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 64-65) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 91-92) The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems 1993; (p. 213-214)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 1 i "They are always there, men chipping at wooden boomerangs:", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 55-56) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 85)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 2 i "People of southern clans sit there, talking together...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 86-87) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 56-59)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 3 i "They are rubbing hard lumps of red ochre against the stones...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 88-89) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 59-60)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 4 i "They spray red ochre and kangaroo fat on the boomerangs...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 60) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 88)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 5 i "They stand ready in rows, men of the southern clans...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 89) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 61)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 6 i "They are shaking their boomerangs, as they always do, with heaving chests...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 89-90) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 61-62)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 7 i "Putting the boomerangs along in a row, who are they? Men of the southern clans...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 63) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 90-91)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 8 i "The sound of talking flies from among the branches, drifting like the cry of the Morning Pigeon...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 91) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 63-64)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 10 i "They arrange the branches with care at the nonggaru place, at the sacred Vagina shade.", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 65) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 92)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 11 i "There they stand close to the sacred shade, waiting for defloration...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 65-67) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 92-93)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 12 i "They bring close the pointed boomerang, raising her thighs on to the hips of a man...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 93-94) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 67-68)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 13 i "They are copulating together, to the sound of singing, with penis erect...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 68-69) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 94-95)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 14 i "Weak from coitus, within the branches screening the shade, two young girls.", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 95-96) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 70)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 15 i "They smear red ochre and blood, with kangaroo fat, over the young girls...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 71) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 96)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 16 i "Blood-red clouds, hanging above those inland places...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 96-97) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 71-72)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 17 i "They sit there together, men of the southern clans, clans of the barramundi...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 72-73) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 97-98)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 18 i "They are striking and flaking the stone blades, 'mother' blades of the jiridja clans...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 98) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 73)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 19 i "They seize the erect penis, with open 'mouth'...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 74) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 99)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 20 i "Clouds rise into the sky, bending down towards the place of the Snake...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 99-100) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 75-77)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 21 i "The tongue of the Lightning flashes along the top of the clouds...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 77-78) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 101)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 22 i "Snake crawling on its belly along the ground, leaving its hole...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 101-102) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 78-79)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 23 i "They are lighting small fires, men of the barramundi clans...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 79-80) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 102)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 24 i "The spider goes round and round, spinnng its new web, hiding behind its 'shield'...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 103) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 80-81)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 25 i "Rats hopping along, shaking off the misty threads of the spider webs...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 81) Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 103)
The Rose River Cycle : Song 26 i "The Morning Pigeon is calling...", Ronald M. Berndt (translator), 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Songs of Arnhem Land 1976; (p. 104) Three Faces of Love : Traditional Aboriginal Song-Poetry 1976; (p. 82)

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