"Love's Coming" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson. It was first published in The Daily Herald on 13 May 1911, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.
Analysis In a piece on the poet's work in The Sydney Morning Herald, "S. R." praised the "delicacy and sweetness of this work."
Shortly after the poet's death, an appreciation of his work in The Daily Mercury newspaper praised the poet's lyric poetry, using this poem as an example and noting: "It would be over-bold to say that a line of words can mean only one bald material thing. It may evoke a thousand images. The choice of words, the vowel tones, the rhythm of the metre, all make their subtle suggestions, and transport us to a realm of faery, where anything beautiful may be true."
H. M. Green, in his volume A History of Australian Literature, called the poem "etherial", also describing the work, along with a few others by the same poet, as "among the most beautiful of their kind in modern literature".
Further publications The Sun (Sydney), 14 May 1911 The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1918 Heart of Spring by John Shaw Neilson, Bookfellow, 1919 An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927 New Song in an Old Land edited by Rex Ingamells, Longmans Green, 1948 An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952 The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth, Penguin Books, 1958 From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964 Makar, 21 May 1965 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 The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Leonie Kramer and Adrian Mitchell, Oxford University Press, 1985 Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O’Connor, Oxford University Press, 1988 Love Came So Lightly : Australian Love Sonnets and Such Angus and Robertson, 1990 John Shaw Neilson : Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence edited by Cliff Hanna, University of Queensland Press, 1991 The Language of Love: An Anthology of Australian Love Letters, Poetry and Prose edited by Pamela Allardice, Angus and Robertson, 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 Hell and After : Four Early English-language Poets of Australia edited by Les Murray, Carcanet 2005 Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell, Gary Allen, 2007 An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007 The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella, Penguin, 2009 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant Books, 2011 Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, University of NSW Press, 2011 Collected Verse of John Shaw Neilson edited by Margaret Roberts, UWA Publishing, 2012
See also 1911 in poetry 1911 in literature 1911 in Australian literature Australian literature
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