Sloth (I) & (II) (Bernard O’Dowd Poems)
Sloth (I)Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent:Too many a Sybil girl you lure to makeThe Great Refusal for ...
Bernard O Dowd Poems (22 Poems)
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Alma Venus! [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Dominions Of The Boundary (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
The Survival Of The Gods1 TwilightThe gods of Nature abdicateWhen man intrudes too far:The Dryad leaves her woodland state,And ...
Young Democracy (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
HARK! Young Democracy from sleep Our careless sentries raps: A backwash from the Future's deep Our Evil's foreland laps. Unknown, ...
Proletaria (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
THE SUNNY rounds of Earth contain An obverse to its Day, Our fertile Vagrancy's domain, Wan Proletaria. From pole to ...
Witch Of Our Wilderness (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I know not why I love your baffling face,Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,Or what the charm persuades my ...
Last Stanzas of ‘The Bush’ (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Where is Australia, singer, do you know? These sordid farms and joyless factories, Mephitic mines and lanes of pallid woe? ...
Love and Sacrifice (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
CAN we not consecrate To man and God above This volume of our great Supernal tide of love? 'Twere wrong ...
Bacchus [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I am the gift of tongues that flameInspired resolve above:I wither the weeds of paltry aimThat choke the growth of ...
Prosperity (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Enlaced with gardened jewelryMy basking villas nestWhere sifted sunshine soothes the eyeAnd cosy hillocks rest.Convention's fronds here screen from viewImmodest ...
May Day (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Come Jack, our place is with the ruckOn the open road today,Not with the tepid "footpath sneak"Or with the wise ...
Evensong (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
There was a time we had the powerTo build with Silent ThoughtThe perfect heaven-reaching tower,As ancient seers have taught.And periods ...
A Keynote [Extract] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Heard, from the speaking stones that strewThe hillside of Success;From spheres whose harmonies anewCan those who listen bless;From breaths of ...
The Cow (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
THIS is a rune I ravelled in the still, Arrogant stare of an Australian cow- 'These prankt intruders of the ...
Love’s Substitute (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
This love, that dares not warm before its flameOur yearning hands, or from its tempting treeYield fruit we may consume, ...
Envy (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Black drips the ooze that you secrete on allThat Honour's burin graves or Love holds dear:At sacrifice you laugh, at ...
Our Duty (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Yet what were Love if man remains unfree,And woman's sunshine sordid merchandise:If children's Hope is blasted ere they seeIts shoots ...
Sloth [1] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent:Too many a Sybil girl you lure to makeThe Great Refusal for a ...
Auster Rampant! (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
A larger Argo ploughs our clearer blue!Your Zephyr won no such auroral brideAs her I woo! The South is whence ...
Australia (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space,Are you a drift Sargasso, where the WestIn halcyon calm rebuilds her fatal ...
Sloth [II] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
My dreams dissolve the day's illusive net:While crested Action's billows blinding beat,Omniscient Eyes in troughs of Faith I meet:I wait ...