Victoria University of Wellington Library
New Zealand Minstrelsy
[contents]
Contents of the New Zealand Minstrelsy
.
Page
Erratonga
9
A Bushranging
10
Come to the Bush
11
The Bushman’s Harvest Home
12
The Pastry Baker
13
Colonial Courtship of 1841
14
The Fair Emigrant’s Fate
16
The South-East Storm
17
The Thrashing Floor
18
The Lover’s Invitation
19
Answer to the Lover’s Invitation
19
The Love Letter
20
The Black Seal
21
A Desperate Case
22
Evening Industry
23
Wairau
, or
Colonel Wakefield
’s Dirge to the Memory of his Brother
24
A Whaling
25
The Setting Sun
26
Mr. T——’s Dirge to the Memory of
W. Cook
27
The Effects of Good Government, or the Happy Change
29
The Sun Shining Out
30
Sonnet on the Wreck of the
Maria
31
Addition to the Thrashing Floor
31
An Old Bachelor’s Soliloquy over his First Honey Moon
32
The Plough
33
The Prudent Wife
34
Stanzas written while on the Voyage out to New Zealand
35
A Tribute to the Memory of Friendship
38
An Epigram on Ambition
40
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The Christian’s March
41
The Penitent’s Prayer
42
Answer to the above
43
The Pilgrim’s Home
44
The Christian’s Joy
45
Appendix
.
Reflections over a Lark’s Nest
i
Stanzas to a Young Poet
iii
A Likeness
v
An Enigma
vi
Stanzas contemporaneously written on a Stormy Night,
Dalserf
, November 4, 1833
vii
A Translation of an Episode in Ossian
ix
A Love Sonnet, written for a Young Lady to her Lover, to whom she soon after got married
x
Stanzas extemporaneously written during the Egress of 1833, and the Ingress of 1834
x
The Dying Infant
xii
A Paraphrase of the 148th Psalm
xiii
Sweet Home
xvi
Langsyne Anticipated
xvii
A Song
xviii
An Acrostic
xviii
Donald’s Return
xix
The Flowers of
Clyde
xx
A Patriotic Breathing—An Ode
xxi