A Christmas Letter From Australia
A Christmas Letter From Australia ’T IS Christmas, and the North wind blows; ’t was two years yesterday Since from the Lusitania’s bows I looked o’er […]
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From the Drama of “Charles II” COME and kiss me, mistress Beauty, I will give you all that ’s due t’ye. I will taste your rosebud […]
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Salopia Inhospitalis TOUCH not that maid: She is a flower, and changeth but to fade. Fragrant is she, and fair As any shape that haunts this […]
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Sunset On The Cunimbla Valley, Blue Mountains I SAT upon a windy mountain height, On a huge rock outstanding from the rest; The sun had sunk […]
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The Tropics LOVE we the warmth and light of tropic lands, The strange bright fruit, the feathery fanspread leaves, The glowing mornings and the mellow eves, […]
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Under The Wattle “Why should not wattle do For mistletoe?” Asked one — they were but two — Where wattles grow. He was her lover, too, […]
READ MOREI shall not die for thee
I shall not die for thee FOR thee, I shall not die, Woman of high fame and name; Foolish men thou mayest slay I and they […]
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My Grief on the Sea MY grief on the sea, How the waves of it roll! For they heave between me And the love of my […]
READ MOREArthur Stace
Arthur Stace That shy mysterious poet Arthur Stace Whose work was just one single mighty word Walked in the utmost depths of time and space And […]
READ MOREFor: Kenneth Slessor
For: Kenneth Slessor Hang it all, Slessor, as Pound once said to Browning, Why have you sailed so untimely out on the water To vanish up […]
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