The Last of His Tribe (poem)

"The Last of His Tribe" is a poem by Australian writer Henry Kendall^[1] that was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 27 September 1864, under the title "Woonoona: The Last of His Tribe".^[2]

It was later included in the author's poetry collection Leaves from Australian Forests (1869), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies (see below).^[1]

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In it Kendall captures the attractive nature of Aboriginal life and sentimentally mourns its passing."^[3]

• Leaves from Australian Forests by Henry Kendall (1869)
• Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall, (1903)
• The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1903)
• The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1913)
• Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stevens and George Mackaness (1913)
• Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore (1957)
• "The Bulletin", 11 December 1957
• Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mundie (1963)
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
• The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited Thomas Thornton Reed (1966)
• Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien (1968)
• The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry P. Heseltine (1972)
• The Collins Book of Australian Verse edited Rodney Hall (1981)
• The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis (1984)
• Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes (1984)
• Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O'Connor (1988)
• The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ken L. Goodwin and Alan Lawson (1990)
• A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, Angus and Robertson, 1991^[4]
• Henry Kendall : Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence edited by Michael Ackland (1993)
• An Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ch'oe Chin-yong and Dynthia Van Den Driesen (1995)
• Classic Australian Verse edited Maggie Pinkney (2001)
• Our Country: Classic Australian Verse: From the Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook (2004)
• Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell (2007)
• An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella (2007)
• 60 Classic Australian Poems for Children edited by Chris Cheng (2009)

• 1864 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• Australian literature