The Vagabond (poem)

"The Vagabond" (1895) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson.^[1]

It was originally published in The Bulletin on 31 August 1895^[2] and subsequently reprinted in several of the author's collections, other periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.^[1]

While reviewing the author's collection In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses, a reviewer in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) commented "While there is an absence of the humor so marked a feature in Mr. Lawson's admirable prose sketches, there are equal minuteness and accuracy of delineation. The writer is at his best in 'The Vagabond'".^[3]

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:

• In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1900^[4]
• An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1907^[5]
• The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909^[6]
• Selected Poems of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1918^[7]
• The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974^[8]
• A Treasury of Colonial Poetry, Currawong, 1982^[9]
• A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984^[10]

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