Five Visions Of Captain Cook (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
THERE'S a fresh track down the paddockThrough the lightwoods to the creek,And I notice Billy CraddockAnd Maloney do not speak,And ...
We are the birds always charmed by you from the top of these belvederesAnd that each night form a blossoming ...
Where were the greenhouses going,Lunging into the lashingWind driving waterSo far down the riverAll the faucets stopped?-So we drained the ...
FEELING hunger and cold, feelingFood, feeling fire, feelingPity and pain, tastingTime in a kiss, tastingAnger and tears, touchingEyelids with lips, ...
Have you seen a tramp collier come out of a hurricane-with broken booms, gunwales shot to pieces,crumpled, gasping, come to ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture ...
I left the course, and by my side There walked a ruined tout -- A hungry creature, evil-eyed, Who poured ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
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