Poems

Pois preyatz me, senhor Pois preyatz me, senhor, qu’eu chan, eu chantarai; e can cuit chantar, plor a l’ora c’o essai. Greu veiretz chantador be chan, […]

Quan l’herba fresqu’el.h folha Can l’erba fresch’e.lh folha par e la flors boton’el verjan e.l rossinhols autet e clar leva sa vots e mou so chan, […]

Tant ai mo cor Tant ai mo cor ple de joya, tot me desnatura. Flor blancha, vermeilh’e groya me par la frejura, c’ab lo ven et […]

Australia LAST sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space, Are you a drift Sargasso, where the West In halcyon calm rebuilds her fatal nest? Or Delos […]

Envy Black drips the ooze that you secrete on all That Honour’s burin graves or Love holds dear: At sacrifice you laugh, at virtue sneer, And […]

Last Stanzas of the Bush WHERE is Australia, singer, do you know? These sordid farms and joyless factories, Mephitic mines and lanes of pallid woe? Those […]

Love and Sacrifice CAN we not consecrate To man and God above This volume of our great Supernal tide of love? ’Twere wrong its wealth to […]

Love’s Substitute This love, that dares not warm before its flame Our yearning hands, or from its tempting tree Yield fruit we may consume, or let […]

May Day Come Jack, our place is with the ruck On the open road today, Not with the tepid “footpath sneak” Or with the wise who […]

Our Duty Yet what were Love if man remains unfree, And woman’s sunshine sordid merchandise: If children’s Hope is blasted ere they see Its shoots of […]