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Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1879. Here he collects poetry from various sources in the Cape Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal
- Chapters
- Preface
- The Emigrants.
- The Bechuana Boy
- Afar in the Desert.
- Evening Rambles
- The Lion Hunt
- The Lion and the Giraffe
- The Desolate Valley
- The Coranna
- Song of the Wild Bushman
- The Captive of Camal
- The Brown Hunter's Song
- The Bushman
- The Cape of Storms
- The Hottentot
- The Caffer
- The Ghona Widow's Lullaby
- The Kosa
- Makanna's Gathering
- The Incantation
- The Caffer Commando
- The Rock of Reconcilement
- The Forester of the Neutral Ground
- The Emigrant's Cabin at the Cape
- The Volunteers of England
- The Dear Old Land
- The Funeral in the Abbey
- A Farewell to English Friends
- A Missionary's Last Farewell to England
- A Reminiscence of 1820
- Past and Present
- A South African Wilderness
- A Sunrise Thought at "Cove Rock"
- An Ocean Sunset
- A Sight from the Shore
- The Thunderstorm at Bathurst
- A Morning Wish for a Friend
- A Night Thought
- The Little Shell at Cove Rock
- A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden
- The Colours of the First 24th
- Our Boys
- In the Drought Lands of South Africa
- The Landing of the British Settlers of 1820
- In The Country of Mankoraan
- Drink
- South Africa Rediviva
- The Beautful Island of Dreams
- Cape of Good Hope
- Good Hope
- Ode
- After a Storm
- Ammap and Griet
- Sonnets of the Cape
- The Faded Photograph
- Eveleen
- Farewell to Madeira
- Farewell to Fifty-five
- Lead, Kindly Light
- Should It Be According to Thy Mind
- To Graaff Reinet
- Hymn
- The Lament
- My "Salted" Steed
- A Romance from the Fields
- The Flight of the Amakosa
- An Idyl of a Prince
- A Christmas Apparition
- Freedom's Home
- The Gallant "Teuton"
- The Sunny Hills of Africa
- The Southern Cross
- Hon. William Porter, C.M.G
- Ode on the British Settlers' Year of Jubilee
- Dives Redivivus
- The Burghers' Gathering
- Storm in Tugela Valley, Natal
- The Natal Gold Diggings
- Nature
- Contentment
- Not Here
- Revelation XXII
- Ezekiel XLVII. 1-12
- Change
- Heavenly Friendship
- Lines Written in an Album
- The Defence of Rorke's Drift
- Rorke's Drift
- Before Ulundi
- The Baron's Adventure
- South African Courtship
- The Better Land
- Dolly
- Going Home
- The Oxford Bible
- The Last Mission of the Sails
- The Worn-out Sails
- In Memoriam
- Epitaph on a Diamond Digger
- Afric's Greeting
- Robert Godlinton
- The Diamond Digger
- The Last of the Bowkers
- The Drunkard's Child
- The Angel's Message
- The "Churl" of the Period; and Another
- Welcome
- Precepts for Young and Old
- Be Kind to One Another
- Paddy's Love Symptoms
- Proverbial Philosophy of Humbug
- Platteklip Cascade
- The Port Elizabeth Pyramid
- In Memoriam
- Lord! What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him!
- The Rhyme of the Ox-wagon
- The Cape of Good Hope
- The Erythrina Tree'