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The Poetry of South Africa

by Alexander WILMOT (1836 - 1924)

A Morning Wish for a Friend

The Poetry of South Africa

Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1879. Here he collects poetry from various sources in the Cape Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal. Summary by Larry Wilson.

Listen next episodes of The Poetry of South Africa:
In Memoriam , A Christmas Apparition , A Night Thought , A Romance from the Fields , A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden , Afric's Greeting , After a Storm , Ammap and Griet , An Idyl of a Prince , Be Kind to One Another , Before Ulundi , Cape of Good Hope , Change , Contentment , Dives Redivivus , Dolly , Drink , Epitaph on a Diamond Digger , Eveleen , Ezekiel XLVII. 1-12 , Farewell to Fifty-five , Farewell to Madeira , Freedom's Home , Going Home , Good Hope , Heavenly Friendship , Hon. William Porter, C.M.G , Hymn , In Memoriam , In The Country of Mankoraan , In the Drought Lands of South Africa , Lead, Kindly Light , Lines Written in an Album , Lord! What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him! , My "Salted" Steed , Nature , Not Here , Ode , Ode on the British Settlers' Year of Jubilee , Our Boys , Paddy's Love Symptoms , Platteklip Cascade , Precepts for Young and Old , Proverbial Philosophy of Humbug , Revelation XXII , Robert Godlinton , Rorke's Drift , Should It Be According to Thy Mind , Sonnets of the Cape , South Africa Rediviva , South African Courtship , Storm in Tugela Valley, Natal , The Angel's Message , The Baron's Adventure , The Beautful Island of Dreams , The Better Land , The Burghers' Gathering , The Cape of Good Hope , The "Churl" of the Period; and Another , The Colours of the First 24th , The Defence of Rorke's Drift , The Diamond Digger , The Drunkard's Child , The Erythrina Tree' , The Faded Photograph , The Flight of the Amakosa , The Gallant "Teuton" , The Lament , The Landing of the British Settlers of 1820 , The Last Mission of the Sails , The Last of the Bowkers , The Little Shell at Cove Rock , The Natal Gold Diggings , The Oxford Bible , The Port Elizabeth Pyramid , The Rhyme of the Ox-wagon , The Southern Cross , The Sunny Hills of Africa , The Worn-out Sails , To Graaff Reinet , Welcome