Poems

Youth And Lordship MY young lord’s the lover Of earth and sky above, Of youth’s sway and youth’s play, Of songs and flowers and love. Yet […]

Joy-Month Oh, hark to the brown thrush! hear how he sings! How he pours the dear pain of his gladness! What a gush! and from out […]

Chiding Reproach will seldom mend the young, If they are left to need it; The breath of love must stir the tongue, If you would have […]

Childhood Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood, With its careless, thoughtless air, Like the verdant, tangled wildwood, Wants the training hand of care. See it springing all […]

Speak Gently Speak gently! — It is better far To rule by love, than fear — Speak gently — let not harsh words mar The good […]

At The Sheep-Dog Trials What ancestors unite Here in this red and white Kelpie to define His symmetry of line, As crouched in burning dust He […]

Harry Pearce I sat beside the red stock route and chewed a blade of bitter grass and saw in mirage on the plain a bullock wagon […]

Men in Green Oh, there were fifteen men in green, Each with a tommy-gun, Who leapt into my plane at dawn; We rose to meet the […]

The Stockman The sun was in the summer grass, the Coolibahs* were twisted steel; the stockman paused beneath their shade and sat upon his heel, and […]

Up North Oh, Bill and Joe to the north have gone, A green shirt on their back; There are not many ewes and lambs Along Kokoda […]