Adam Lindsay Gordon [19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870] was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. Much of his verse is careless and banal, there are passages in Ashtaroth for instance that are almost unbelievably bad, but at his best he is a poet of importance, who on occasions wrote some magnificent lines [taken from wiki]. One of Gordon's poems, "The Swimmer", forms the libretto for the fifth movement of Edward Elgar's song cycle Sea Pictures, and Elgar also set to music another of his poems, "A Song of Autumn". Also Queen Elizabeth II quoted from one of Gordon's more famous poems in her Christmas Message of 1992, "Kindness in another's trouble, courage in one's own..", but did not mention the poet's name.
Ashtaroth [A Dramatic Lyric] [by Adam Lindsay Gordon] [1867]
Sea Spray And Smoke Drift [by Adam Lindsay Gordon] [1876]
Australian Poems [by Adam Lindsay Gordon] [1900]
Racing Rhymes A Other Verses [by Adam Lindsay Gordon] [1901]
Poems Of Adam Lindsay Gordon [by Adam Lindsay Gordon] [1912]
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