Songs from the Mountains
Henry Kendall
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This is a volume of late poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall, published in 1880. The poems in this volume are prime examples of the style for which Kendall was famous, describing the Australian nature and landscape in poetic detail. Wikipedia quotes the Sydney Mail writing: "Sad songs though many of them be, they are full of great thoughts and lofty aspirations. You may dislike them because they are not all chanted in unison with the bright noontide hymn; but you cannot deny that they are all of the music that floats high above the level of earthly grossness, and that sings, if sometimes among clouds, yet always far above the spires and mountains, although these are loftier than the level of the unbroken plains beneath." - Summary by Carolin (2 hr 47 min)
Chapters
| To a Mountain | 4:21 | Read by Peter Tucker |
| Mary Rivers | 3:51 | Read by Peter Tucker |
| Kingsborough | 4:11 | Read by Peter Tucker |
| Beyond Kerguelen | 4:39 | Read by Peter Tucker |
| Black Lizzie | 5:17 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Hy-Brasil | 4:29 | Read by Nemo |
| Jim the Splitter | 4:06 | Read by Nemo |
| Mooni | 5:34 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Pytheas | 5:56 | Read by Nemo |
| Bill the Bullock-Driver | 4:36 | Read by Nemo |
| Cooranbean | 4:36 | Read by Algy Pug |
| When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass | 1:32 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Voice in the Wild Oak | 4:51 | Read by Nemo |
| Billy Vickers | 4:54 | Read by Nemo |
| Persia | 3:00 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Lilith | 3:19 | Read by Kirby Wheatland |
| Bob | 4:24 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Peter the Piccaninny | 4:29 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Narrara Creek | 6:36 | Read by Nemo |
| In Memory of John Fairfax | 3:07 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Araluen | 3:56 | Read by Nemo |
| The Sydney International Exhibition | 17:21 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Christmas Creek | 4:29 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Orara | 3:24 | Read by Kirby Wheatland |
| The Curse of Mother Flood | 5:21 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| On a Spanish Cathedral | 6:04 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Rover | 5:40 | Read by Nemo |
| The Melbourne International Exhibition | 4:24 | Read by Algy Pug |
| By the Cliffs of the Sea | 4:30 | Read by Nemo |
| Galatea | 4:11 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Black Kate | 3:05 | Read by Nemo |
| A Hyde Park Larrikin | 4:58 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Names Upon a Stone | 3:17 | Read by Kirby Wheatland |
| Leichhardt | 5:27 | Read by Algy Pug |
| After Many Years | 3:27 | Read by Larry Wilson |