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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AUSTRALIA Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis christmas, and the north wind blows Last Line: My heart is always in the spot which was my childhood's home. Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; England; Homesickness; Nativity, The; English A CLEARING, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I had come to australia Subject(s): Australia A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares A MIDSUMMER'S NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound disturbs the air Last Line: Musing thus of quietness. Subject(s): Australia; Forests; Nature; Woods A SONG FOR THE HOT WINDS, by HARRIET MILLER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Oh for a breath o' the moorlands Last Line: A whiff o' her caller air! Subject(s): Australia; Home; Patriotism AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL, by ETHEL CASTILLA Poem Text First Line: She has a beauty of her own Last Line: Does she disdain. Subject(s): Australia; Women ARAKOON, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in storms, the triple-headed Last Line: Works against the tide in vain. Subject(s): New South Wales, Australia; Sea; Ocean ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks AT EUROMA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They built his mound of the rough, red ground Last Line: And unvexed by the lordship of dreams. Subject(s): Graves; New South Wales, Australia; Tombs; Tombstones AUSTRALIA, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Insula pacificis in fluctibus ilice multa Last Line: Non auctumnalen maturis frugibus imbrem Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by BARBARA CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: It is september first and the first day Last Line: What we pass and hold; what mercy between us Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey Last Line: The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes %which is called civilization over there Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by AGNES NEALE Poem Source First Line: All the things that have been done Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by BERNARD O'DOWD Poem Source First Line: Last sea-thing dredged by sailor time from space Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by DOWELL O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: What can we give in return Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH First Line: In the southern hemisphere lies australia Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA, by STAN SANVEL RUBIN First Line: The river was a floor of shadows, our plunging raft Last Line: What are we taking with us when we take our shadow tours? %maybe the art to remember what we leave b Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIA IN LONDON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the battle over Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free. Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG Poem Text First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines AUSTRALIA; JANUARY 1, 1901. MAY 9, 1901, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She rose amid the nations, tall and fair Last Line: Circled the great world round. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Liberty AUSTRALIAN, by ARTHUR HENRY ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Once more this autumn-earth is ripe Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIAN DECADES, by ANDREW SANT Poem Source First Line: Out across the corrugated roofs Last Line: Stubborn, though: trucks in relay wheeze and groan Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Source First Line: Not as the songs of other lands Subject(s): Australia AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The short sweet purple twilight dreams Last Line: That stirs it from cicalas shrill. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Dreams; Dusk; Oranges; Nightmares AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: IN THE FERN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feathery fern-trees make a screen Last Line: Of lime-tree in an english june. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Trees AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: MID-NOON IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a fibry fern-tree bough Last Line: Breathes 'mid the green fern-spaces round Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Australia; January BACHIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives are hid; our trails are strange Last Line: All 'fore the woman came. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Australia; Cowboys BALLADE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair islands of the silver fleece Subject(s): Australia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares BOTANY BAY, by JOHN FREETH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away with all whimsical bubbles of air Last Line: Be sent to the bottom of botany bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Fortune BOUNDARY RIDER, by THOMAS HENEY Poem Source First Line: The bridle-reins hang loose in the hold ... Subject(s): Australia BREAKING BILLOWS AT SORRENTO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of whirling flakes of foam Last Line: In thunder the sea's boundless might. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Sea; Sky; Ocean BUSH, by JAMES LISTER CUTHBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Give us from dawn to dark Subject(s): Australia BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods CANADA TO AUSTRALIA, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not only through the heart but through the limbs Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Australia CHRIST CHILD DAY IN AUSTRALIA, by ETHEL S. TURNER Poem Source First Line: A copper conclave of a sky Subject(s): Australia; England CHRISTMAS EVE: AUSTRALIA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows hot. English and foreign birds Last Line: Curse lightly and pronounce your serious name Subject(s): Australia; Christmas CIRCLING HEARTHS, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN Poem Source First Line: My countrymen, though we are young as yet Subject(s): Australia CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Last Line: But I doubt he'd suit the office, clancy, of the overflow. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Letters FAREWELL TO ANZAC, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay Last Line: Oh, we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!) Subject(s): World War I - Australia FORBY SUTHERLAND; A STORY OF BOTANY BAY, A.D. 1770, by GEORGE GORDON MCCRAE Poem Text First Line: A lane of elms in june; the air Last Line: "the meek, blue-eyed ""forget-me-not!" Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770) GOLD MINING IN AUSTRALIA, 1895, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: You face the wind blowing Last Line: There are more ways of drowning %than in water Subject(s): Australia; Gold Mines And Miners H.M.S. GLORY AT SYDNEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But I remember, I remember sydney Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Australia; Travel HOMESICK, by DOROTHY FRANCES MCCRAE Poem Source First Line: I'm sick of fog and yellow gloom Subject(s): Australia IMPROVED ENOCH ARDEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Philip ray and enoch arden Last Line: "by next mail to alfred tenny / son m. P., isle of wight" Subject(s): Australia;new Zealand IN GLEN WAVERLEY, MELBOURNE, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Over high street road, where rush-hour Last Line: Where they landed, fearing the worst Subject(s): Australia; Traffic JUSTICE (UNCIVILISED AND CIVILISED), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ling-tso ah sin; on murderer's flat Last Line: For thee, though not for us, ah sin! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Justice; Murder; Sin KOALA, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: How should I describe you-eternal Subject(s): Australia; Koalas; Travel LINES TO A FRIEND IN AUSTRALIA, by LOUISA A. HORSFIELD Poem Source First Line: We think of thee, when smiling spring Last Line: Shall waft thee to the lovely vale, %where smiles thine english home Subject(s): Absence; Australia MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: MEMORY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts flutter like butterfly wings Last Line: With cooling fingers. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia; Memory MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Change is a sweet and lovely sprite who brushes with a velvet pall Last Line: Beauty of decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Change; Melbourne, Australia; Time MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE GARDENS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wealth of the city hardens Last Line: Of breathing spirit! Surely, these will abide! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melbourne, Australia MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE TOWERS AT EVENING, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The juggernauting trams and the prolonged Last Line: A pearly lighthouse over its own hull-tearing crags! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia MONSTER DIAMOND; TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF W. AUSTRALIA, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll have it, I tell you! Curse you - there Subject(s): Australia; Penal Colonies MY COUNTRY, by DOROTHEA MACKELLAR Poem Source First Line: The love of field and coppice Subject(s): Australia NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind ON AUSTRALIAN HILLS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, outward turning on her path in space Last Line: But trust the guidance of the one who knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Australia; Mountains ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winters at home brought wind Last Line: And another child Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Australia; Snow; Winter OUT IN AUSTRALIA, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bright's the sun in your hand, and fair the flowers to see Subject(s): Australia QUEENSLANDERS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean brown lords of the brisbane beaches Last Line: These are the swords of thy soul's desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Australia SELF-PORTRAIT IN EAST MELBOURNE FLAT, by PETER BAKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: My telephone wants a better job Last Line: Say, about the size %of a mouse or a matchbox Subject(s): Australia; Portraits; Self SEPTEMBER IN AUSTRALIA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest Last Line: With thy voices for ever! Subject(s): Australia; September SHEA-OAK TREES ON A STORMY DAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er sandy tracts the shea-oak trees Last Line: A death song o'er the mournful plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Death; Oak Trees; Dead, The SONG OF THE AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the honour of australia, our mother Last Line: Kneel thee down, new made sister - let us pray Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Honor; Roads; Singing And Singers SONG OF THE SQUATTER, by ROBERT LOWE Poem Text First Line: The commissioner bet me a pony - I won Last Line: Anything that you please, but graze lands of the crown! Alternate Author Name(s): Sherbrooke, Viscount Subject(s): Australia; Ranch Life SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 1, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the painter who shall paint for you Last Line: "turned seaward, ""after many a wistful look!" Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779) SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 2, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were but two, and we were forty! Yet Last Line: With faithful blood, as pure as any ever shed. Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779) SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 3, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaotic crags are huddled east and west Last Line: By all the sacred past 'tis sacred ground. Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779) SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. VICTORIA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the boulder'd majesty Last Line: Dreamlike steals over each dim range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SYDNEY HARBOUR CONSIDERED AS A MATISSE, by JOHN FORBES Poem Source First Line: One slip & you're back, via whitely & ken Last Line: Crushed on sandstone piers? Maybe just Subject(s): Harbors; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Sydney, Australia TALBINGO, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Rivers; Australia THE BELL-BIRD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness of the austral noon Last Line: Save 'mid these silences alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds THE BIRTH OF AUSTRALIA, by PERCY RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Not 'mid the thunder of the battle guns Last Line: The only nation from the womb of peace! Subject(s): Australia THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven. Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together. Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling THE COROBBOREE (MIDNIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the forest-depths the tribe Last Line: The silent stars above the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bedtime THE DOMINION, 1883 [OF AUSTRALIA] (A FORECAST), by JAMES BRUNTON STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: She is not yet, but he whose ear Last Line: Our bounds shall be the girdling seas alone. Subject(s): Australia THE FLAME-TREE (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles the illawarra range Last Line: That wander not nor reach up higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Pacific Ocean THE FLYING MOUSE (NEW SOUTH WALES -- MOONLIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eucalyptus-blooms are sweet Last Line: Flits bat-like where the white gums rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Eucalyptus Trees THE LAST ABORIGINAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see him sit, wild-eyed alone Last Line: Then sinks back on his unknown bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Fear; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE MUSE OF AUSTRALIA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts Last Line: And a hand with the harp of australia! Subject(s): Australia THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road goes up and down Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE ROCK-LILY (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amber-tinted level sands Last Line: The glory of these austral plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Lilies THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen Last Line: To seek the happy isles! Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while orion, flaming south Last Line: On holy paths -- on sacred ways and sweet. Subject(s): Australia; Exhibitions; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659); World's Fairs; Expositions THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go, the reed - beds sweep and sway Last Line: My letter chases conroy's sheep along the castlereagh. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Drovers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE VICTORIA MARKETS RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds are bleak, stars are bright Last Line: Apples, ripen for the dray! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Markets; Victoria, Australia; Supermarkets THE WOOD-SWALLOWS (SUNRISE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning-stricken giant gum Last Line: Dart joyous midst the sunrise-glow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Swallows WALTZING MATILDA, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! There once was a swagman camped in a billabong Last Line: Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me? Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): National Song - Australia |
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