- Bib ID:
- 2257251
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tompson, Charles, 1807-1883
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. FRM F1093 (N) copy
- Description:
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- Sydney : Robert Howe, Govt. Printer, 1826
- 68 pages ; 26 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Retrospect; Or, A Review of my Scholastic Days.
- I. A Baccanalian Ode,
- Ode II. To Sylvia,
- Ode III. To Laura,
- Ode IV. To Sylvia,
- Ode V. To Sylvia
- Ode VI. Farewell
- Ode VII. To Spring
- Ode VIII. The Voyage
- I. On the Death of Maj. Gen. Macquarie,
- II.
- III. An Elegy on Winter in Argyleshire
- IV. To Sylvia
- The Storm; A Fragment;
- Habakkuk, Chap. III
- Zimeo
- Sonnet to Spring
- Song
- Mira, "The Flow'r of the Vale;"
- A Song, for January 26, 1824.
- Notes:
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- The first volume of verse by a native-born Australian to be published in his own country.
- National Library of Australia's FRM F1093 (N) copy half bound in calf with blue boards; has anonomous manuscript pencil note "This copy which belonged to Sir Saul Samuel was catalogued by Sotherans at £10 10/- - I have added Robinson's autograph msg to Secretary, J.T. Campbell from another very poor copy which I had bound ..." bound in; also bound in, a manuscript note in ink: "This book was presented to me by my friend John Thomas Campbell Esq., late Colonial Secretary at Sydney, New South Wales this 25th day of March 1829 - R. Robinson".
- National Library of Australia's FRM F1093 (NL) copy is half bound in marbled boards with a gilt Parliament of the Commonwealth supralibros on the front cover; stamped 10 Oct. 1904, 6989, Commonwealth of Australia Library of the Parliament.
- National Library of Australia's FC F1093 copy half bound with five raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers; Angus & Robertson, Sydney booksellers label pasted inside the front cover; press clipping dated 4 Oct. 1929, 'First Australian poet. Written for "Wingham Chronicle" by F.A. Fiztzpatrick' loosely inserted.
- FRM F1093 (N) copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-492175961
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 1093
- Other authors/contributors:
- Samuel, Saul, Sir, 1820-1900, former owner
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