The Teams is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in the Australian Town and Country Journal on 21 December 1889. It was later published in the poet's poetry collection In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses in 1896.
Text
The text of the poem, as published in the Australian Town and Country Journal, is as follows:
Critical reception
In a review of the poet's collection In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses a writer in Freeman's Journal (Sydney) stated that "If one piece were to be chosen as an example of Mr. Lawson's quality as a writer of true bush ballads, the best piece is 'The Teams'".
Further publications
- In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson (1896)
- The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1913)
- Selected Poems of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1918
- The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch (1924)
- New Song in an Old Land edited by Rex Ingamells (1943)
- Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie (1963)
- 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(1970)
- Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Ure Smith, 1973
- The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974
- The Collins Book of Australian Poetry compiled by Rodney Hall (1981)
- The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer edited Brian Kiernan, Currey O'Neil, 1982
- A Treasury of Colonial Poetry (1982)
- A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984
- My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer (1985)
- Henry Lawson : An Illustrated Treasury edited by Glenys Smith, Lansdowne, 1985
- A Collection of Australian Bush Verse (1989)
- A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, Angus and Robertson, 1991
- Australian Bush Poems (1991)
- Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney (2001)
See also
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