Ye Wearie Wayfarer : Hys Ballad : In Eight Fyttes sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1867-1909... 1867-1909 Ye Wearie Wayfarer : Hys Ballad : In Eight Fyttes
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By Wood and Wold i "Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1906 single work poetry
— Appears in: School Paper for Classes V and VI : Our Own Country , September no. 89 1906; (p. 121) School Paper for Classes V and VI , March no. 105 1908; (p. 23) Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 15) The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1918; (p. 20-21) The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1924; (p. 14-15) The School Paper : Grades V and VI , April no. 336 1927; (p. 44)
In Utrumque Paratus : A Logical Discussion i "There's a formula which the west country clowns", 1881 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 April vol. 5 no. 62 1881; (p. 2)
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 21-24)
By Flood and Field : A Legend of the Cottiswold i "I remember the lowering wintry morn,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 16-18)
Zu der Edlen Jagd : A Treatise on Trees -- Vine-Tree Versus Saddle-Tree i "I remember some words my father said,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 19-20)
Lex Talionis : A Moral Discourse i "To beasts of the field, and fowls of the air,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 25-27)
Cito Pede Preterit Aetas : A Philosophical Dissertation i "A mellower light doth Sol afford,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 29-33)
Potter's Clay : An Allegorical Interlude i "Though the pitcher that goes to the sparkling rill", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 28)
Finis Exoptatus : A Metaphysical Song i "Boot and saddle, see the slanting", Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1909; (p. 34-40) The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1918; (p. 27-33)

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Related Works

Ye Wearie Wayfarer! Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1919 single work extract
— Appears in: The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII , January no. 231 1919; (p. xiii-xiv) The Australian Journal , 1 December vol. 61 no. 729 1926; (p. 1359) Australian Poetry Since 1788 2011; (p. 33-36)
Hark! The Bells! Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1929 single work extract poetry
— Appears in: Victorian Readers : Sixth Book 1929; (p. 128-129) Victorian Readers : Sixth Book 1940; (p. 126-127)
The Sportsman Adam Lindsay Gordon , 1931 single work extract
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 February vol. 66 no. 779 1931; (p. 139)
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Works about this Work

On Autograph Books and Adam Lindsay Gordon Tessa Wooldridge , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Thoughts from an Idle Hour 2015-;

An extract from Adam Lindsay Gordon’s ‘Ye Wearie Wayfarer’ appeared regularly in the autograph books of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian children. The often quoted extract was:

'Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.'
On Autograph Books and Adam Lindsay Gordon Tessa Wooldridge , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Thoughts from an Idle Hour 2015-;

An extract from Adam Lindsay Gordon’s ‘Ye Wearie Wayfarer’ appeared regularly in the autograph books of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian children. The often quoted extract was:

'Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.'
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