Poems

Lovers I thought, because we had been friends so long, That I knew all your dear lips dared intend Before they dawned to speech. Our thoughts […]

Nemesis All things must fade. There is for cities tall The same tomorrow as for daffodils: Time’s wind, that casts the seed, the petal spills. Grim […]

Sydney In her grey majesty of ancient stone She queens it proudly, though the sun’s caress Her piteous cheeks, ravished of bloom, confess, And her dark […]

The Australian ONCE more this Autumn-earth is ripe, Parturient of another type. While with the Past old nations merge His foot is on the Future’s verge. […]

The Pleiades LAST night I saw the Pleiades again, Faint as a drift of steam From some tall chimney-stack; And I remembered you as you were […]

The Weakling I AM a weakling. God, who made The still, strong man, made also me. The God who could the tiger plan, In his lithe […]

The Wonderful Aussie Waler When Allenby’s Army smashed the Turk Who was the bloke who did all the work The Aussie knows and he’ll tell you […]

Written In Australia THE WIDE sun stares without a cloud: Whipped by his glances truculent The earth lies quivering and cowed. My heart is hot with […]

Oh Poetry, oh rarest spirit of all Oh Poetry, oh rarest spirit of all That dwell within the compass of the mind, Forsake not him, whom […]

Across the Sea Along the Shore Across the sea, along the shore, In numbers more and ever more, From lonely hut and busy town, The valley […]