Some of the verses in this book have already appeared in Australian periodicals. The author begs to make acknowledgements to the proprietors of The Arts Journal, Fellowship, The Heart of the Rose, Hermes (Sydney), Hespe, Lilley’s Magazine, The Lone Hand, The New Triad, The Spinner, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Worker .

• Maxims
• Buffalo Creek
• The Domain
• The Bold Buccaneer
• The Faun
• The Child Impaled
• Erskine
• The Liner
• Love is Blind
• The Touch of Time
• The Nepean
• Middle Harbour
• Rebel Hearts
• Merlin
• Disillusion
• Lali
• A Prologue
• Marlowe
• The Chain Gang
• The Grey Tide
• The Guest House
• Sonnets of Old Egypt
• In a Tram
• Microcosmography
• Twenty-One
• David
• Yorick
• Rod Quinn
• To My Mother
• An Epitaph
• Toby
• Kretschmann
• Unborn
• Spring
• Winter
• Beauty and Hate
• The Carillon
• The Explorer
• The Clay
• When My Time is Come
• Hesper
• Vixit
• Swags Up!
• The Robe of Grass
• Dedication