For: Kenneth Slessor (Douglas Alexander Stewart Poems)
Hang it all, Slessor, as Pound once said to Browning,Why have you sailed so untimely out on the waterTo vanish ...
Hang it all, Slessor, as Pound once said to Browning,Why have you sailed so untimely out on the waterTo vanish ...
These agent men! these agent men!We hear the dreaded step again,We see a stranger at the door;And brace ourselves for ...
Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With a ...
We know those little country pubs, By cross-road and by creek,Where faithfully the landlord scrubs His counter once a week,And ...
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
Our law, our beliefs diminished nothing further, nothing more if the ink on the page is the sum of our ...
Destruction of the wind storm, strewn over his driveway, his yard, into the neighbor's yard too but oh so beautiful ...
A bit of war poetry read by featured poets Brought it back to me that night on the floor Each ...
A Saucer holds a Cup In sordid human Life But in a Squirrel's estimate A Saucer hold a Loaf. A ...
I had been hungry, all the Years -- My Noon had Come -- to dine -- I trembling drew the ...
Little Birds are dining Warily and well, Hid in mossy cell: Hid, I say, by waiters Gorgeous in their gaiters ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates: Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes, Van Gogh ...
I open my eyes, yes, it's the house where I was born, Exactly as it was and nothing more. The ...
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
'Ye have robb'd,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: ...
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
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