Love's Coming (poem)

"Love's Coming" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson.^[1] It was first published in The Daily Herald on 13 May 1911,^[2] and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

In a piece on the poet's work in The Sydney Morning Herald, "S. R." praised the "delicacy and sweetness of this work."^[3]

Shortly after the poet's death, an appreciation of his work in The Daily Mercury newspaper praised the poet's lyric poetry, using this poem as an example and noting: "It would be over-bold to say that a line of words can mean only one bald material thing. It may evoke a thousand images. The choice of words, the vowel tones, the rhythm of the metre, all make their subtle suggestions, and transport us to a realm of faery, where anything beautiful may be true."^[4]

H. M. Green, in his volume A History of Australian Literature, called the poem "etherial", also describing the work, along with a few others by the same poet, as "among the most beautiful of their kind in modern literature".^[5]

• The Sun (Sydney), 14 May 1911^[1]
• The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1918^[6]
• Heart of Spring by John Shaw Neilson, Bookfellow, 1919^[7]
• An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927^[8]
• New Song in an Old Land edited by Rex Ingamells, Longmans Green, 1948^[9]
• An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952^[10]
• The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth, Penguin Books, 1958^[11]
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964^[12]
• Makar, 21 May 1965^[1]
• Green Days and Cherries: The Early Verses of Shaw Neilson edited by Hugh Anderson and Leslie James Blake, Red Rooster Press, 1981^[13]
• The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984^[14]
• Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984^[15]
• My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer, Lansdowne, 1985^[16]
• The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Leonie Kramer and Adrian Mitchell, Oxford University Press, 1985^[17]
• Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O’Connor, Oxford University Press, 1988^[18]
• Love Came So Lightly : Australian Love Sonnets and Such Angus and Robertson, 1990^[19]
• John Shaw Neilson : Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence edited by Cliff Hanna, University of Queensland Press, 1991^[20]
• The Language of Love: An Anthology of Australian Love Letters, Poetry and Prose edited by Pamela Allardice, Angus and Robertson, 1991^[21]
• Selected Poems by John Shaw Neilson, Angus and Robertson, 1993^[22]
• The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems edited by Jennifer Strauss, Oxford University Press, 1993^[23]
• Hell and After : Four Early English-language Poets of Australia edited by Les Murray, Carcanet 2005^[24]
• Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell, Gary Allen, 2007^[25]
• An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007^[26]
• The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella, Penguin, 2009^[27]
• 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant Books, 2011^[28]
• Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, University of NSW Press, 2011^[29]
• Collected Verse of John Shaw Neilson edited by Margaret Roberts, UWA Publishing, 2012^[30]

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