Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 - 24 June 1870) was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer and politician. According to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry". The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. His most sustained effort, the "Rhyme of Joyous Garde," has some glorious stanzas, and on it and some 20 other poems Gordon's fame may be allowed to rest.
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