While The Billy BoilsSearch
Campfire and billy illustration used for Henry Kendall’s collection route

Poet

Henry Kendall

1839–1882

Poet of Australian forests, rivers and ranges whose musical verse made landscape, weather and memory central to colonial poetry.

While The Billy Boils · collection artwork · Site artwork

10 poems

Poems in this collection

Forests, rivers, rain, memory and the music of place.

Landscape & natureBell-Birds1918 · POEM-001725Landscape & natureSeptember in Australia1918 · POEM-001726Landscape & natureOrara1918 · POEM-001728Landscape & natureSong of the Shingle Splitters1918 · POEM-001729Landscape & natureMooni1918 · POEM-001730Landscape & nationThe Muse of Australia1888 · POEM-002301Landscape & natureThe Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door1888 · POEM-002303Landscape & natureThe Warrigal1888 · POEM-002307Landscape & natureAt Euroma1888 · POEM-002308Exploration & remembranceLeichhardt1888 · POEM-002310