"Song Be Delicate" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson. It was first published in The Bookfellow on 15 November 1913 with the title "Let Your Song Be Delicate", and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.
Outline "Song Be Delicate" is a love poem, encouraging lovers to be kind to each other in the face of the world's problems.
Analysis In a piece on the poet's work in The Sydney Morning Herald, "S. R." noted that this individual poem "seems to describe Neilson's poetry" in general.
H. M. Green, in his work A History of Australian Literature called the atmosphere of the poem "a happy one", also describing the work as "etheriel".
Further publications Heart of Spring, Bookfellow, 1919 Poetry in Australia 1923, Vision Press, 1923 An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927 Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson edited by R. H. Croll, Lothian, 1934 Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946 An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952 A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1956 From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964 Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 edited by Adrian Mitchell and Brian Elliott, Nelson, 1970 The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972 The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Melbourne University Press, 1980 Green Days and Cherries: The Early Verses of Shaw Neilson edited by Hugh Anderson and Leslie James Blake, Red Rooster Press, 1981 The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984 Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984 My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer, Lansdowne, 1985 Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O'Connor, Oxford University Press, 1988 John Shaw Neilson : Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence edited by Cliff Hanna, University of Queensland Press, 1991 Selected Poems by John Shaw Neilson, Angus and Robertson, 1993 The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems edited by Jennifer Strauss, Oxford University Press, 1993 A Return to Poetry 2000 edited by Michael Duffy, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2000 Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2002 Hell and After : Four Early English-language Poets of Australia edited by Les Murray, Carcanet 2005 An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007 Southerly, Vol 68, No 3, 2008 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant Books, 2011
See also 1913 in poetry 1913 in literature 1913 in Australian literature Australian literature
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