Ownerless (John Shaw Neilson Poems)
He comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming And limelights are trained on the tops of the gums,To stand ...
He comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming And limelights are trained on the tops of the gums,To stand ...
A pleasant shady place it is, a pleasant place and cool —The township folk go up and down, the children ...
HAVE you ever been down to my countree Where the trees are green and tall? The days are long and the heavens ...
In the far days, when every day was long,Fear was upon me and the fear was strong,Ere I had learned ...
Three women walked upon a road,And the first said airily,"Of all the trees in all the worldWhich is the loving ...
The young girl stood beside me. I Saw not what her young eyes could see:- A light, she said, not ...
Oh 'twas a poor country, in Autumn it was bare,The only green was the cutting grass and the sheep found ...
I DREAM of an old kissing-time And the flowered follies there;In the dim place of cherry-trees, Of you, and yellow air.It was ...
O HEART of Spring! Spirit of light and love and joyous day, So soon to faint beneath the fiery Summer: Still smiles the ...
Ragged, unheeded, stooping, meanly shod,The poor pass to the pond: not far awayThe spires go up to God.Shyly they come ...
ALL singers have shadows That follow like fears, But I know a singer Who never saw tears; A gay love-a ...
The bird is my neighbour, a whimsical fellow and dim;There is in the lake a nobility falling on him.The bird ...
QUIETLY as rosebuds Talk to thin air, Love came so lightly I knew not he was there. Quietly as lovers ...
In the dim countieswe take the long calmLilting no haziness,sequel or psalm.The little street wenches,The holy and clean,Live as good ...
When you go underground with all your airs,Your kindly lies and your ridiculous prayers,You shall not ever fear to face ...
I would be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king;But I can talk plainly to ...
YOUR voice was the rugged old voice that I knew; I gave the best grip of my greeting to you. I knew not of ...
Fear it has faded and the night: The bells all peal the hour of nine:The schoolgirls hastening through the light Touch the ...
Let your song be delicate. The skies declareNo war - the eyes of lovers Wake everywhere.Let your voice be delicate. How faint a ...
When he was old and thinAnd knew not night or dayHe would sit up to saySomething of the fire within.How ...
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring,Grave as the urge within the honeybuds,It wounds us as we sing.Beauty is joy that ...
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring,Grave as the urge within the honeybuds,It wounds us as we sing.Beauty is joy that ...
On the blue plains in wintry days The stately birds move in the dance.Keen eyes have they, and quaint old waysOn ...
He has the full moon on his breast,The moonbeams are about his wing;He has the colours of a king.I see ...
A certain old maid at Port Victorhad many strange pets to afflict her,her Kangaroos foughtwith the emu's she caughtand when ...
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