Poems

From: Green Lions The bay is gouged by the wind. In the jagged hollows green lions crouch and stretch and slouch and sudden with spurting manes […]

Glencoe Sigh, wind in the pine; River, weep as you flow; Terrible things were done Long, long ago. In daylight golden and mild After the night […]

Kookbaurra I see we have undervalued the kookaburra; they think they are waking the world, and I think so too. They gobble the night in their […]

Australia WHAT can we give in return For her beauty and mystery Of flowering forest, infinite plain, Deep sky and distant mountain-chain, And her triumphant sea, […]

Faith, Love and Death GREY dawn—and lucent star that slowly paled Beyond the breaking splendour of the years, When boyhood’s heart looked up to heaven, through […]

Sea Grief ALONG the serried coast the Southerly raves, Grey birds scream landward through the distance hoar, And, swinging from the dim confounded shore, The everlasting […]

Stars WILD eyes—and faces ashen grey That strain through lofty prison bars To see the everlasting stars, Then turn—to slumber as we may: Even as we […]

The Sea Maiden Like summer waves on sands of snow, Soft ringlets clasp her neck and brow, And wandering breezes kiss away A threaded light of […]

Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain — I’ve gone half crazy. I look up our […]

Ballad of the Army Carts The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each with a bow and arrows at his waist. […]