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The Poetry of South Africa

by Alexander WILMOT (1836 - 1924)

Evening Rambles

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 Farewell to English Friends , A Missionary's Last Farewell to England , A Morning Wish for a Friend , A Night Thought , A Reminiscence of 1820 , A Romance from the Fields , A Sight from the Shore , A South African Wilderness , A Sunrise Thought at "Cove Rock" , A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden , Afric's Greeting , After a Storm , Ammap and Griet , An Idyl of a Prince , An Ocean Sunset , 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! , Makanna's Gathering , My "Salted" Steed , Nature , Not Here , Ode , Ode on the British Settlers' Year of Jubilee , Our Boys , Paddy's Love Symptoms , Past and Present , 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 , Song of the Wild Bushman , 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 Brown Hunter's Song , The Burghers' Gathering , The Bushman , The Caffer , The Caffer Commando , The Cape of Good Hope , The Cape of Storms , The Captive of Camal , The "Churl" of the Period; and Another , The Colours of the First 24th , The Coranna , The Dear Old Land , The Defence of Rorke's Drift , The Desolate Valley , The Diamond Digger , The Drunkard's Child , The Emigrant's Cabin at the Cape , The Erythrina Tree' , The Faded Photograph , The Flight of the Amakosa , The Forester of the Neutral Ground , The Funeral in the Abbey , The Gallant "Teuton" , The Ghona Widow's Lullaby , The Hottentot , The Incantation , The Kosa , The Lament , The Landing of the British Settlers of 1820 , The Last Mission of the Sails , The Last of the Bowkers , The Lion and the Giraffe , The Lion Hunt , The Little Shell at Cove Rock , The Natal Gold Diggings , The Oxford Bible , The Port Elizabeth Pyramid , The Rhyme of the Ox-wagon , The Rock of Reconcilement , The Southern Cross , The Sunny Hills of Africa , The Thunderstorm at Bathurst , The Volunteers of England , The Worn-out Sails , To Graaff Reinet , Welcome