"Rose Lorraine" (1869) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Kendall.
It was originally published in the author's collection of poems, Leaves from Australian Forests, in 1869, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
A tribute to Kendall, originally published in the London newspaper, St James's Gazette, and reprinted in The Australian Star, drew special attention to "the marvellous girl, 'Rose Lorraine', of whom he writes in that curious tone of passionate humility, desiring only, for the reward of all the sorrow she has given him, that she should have one remembrance", that is "Your tender speeches".
In an overview of Kendall's work, a writer in The Sydney Mail looked at how Kendall allowed his environment to enter his work, though not all the time. "There are times when, like all poets, Kendall borrows grief. When the scrip is empty one must borrow something, and sorrow is loaned at lighter rate than joy. At such times he touches with delicacy and restraint and a knd of middle-age sadness upon some theme of old regret, as in 'Rose Lorraine,' or flashes fitfully into the all-too-brief music of some ardent lyric."
After the poem's initial publication in Leaves from Australian Forests in 1869 it was reprinted as follows: