Music (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
Kenneth Slessor Poems on Wine (6 Poems)
Marco Polo (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
READING how Marco Polo cameBy bridle-path to Kanbalu,Forgotten fibres wake to flame,And smoke old memories anew . . . .For ...
The Nabob (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
(To the memory of William Hickey, Esq.)COMING out of India with ten thousand a yearExchanged for flesh and temper, a ...
Glubbdubdrib (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IN the castle of Glubbdubdrib How spendidly we dine On flesh from magic potagers And cups of dead men's wine, Dead men who run ...
Taoist (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
THOSE friends of Lao-Tzu, those wise old menDozing all day in lemon-silken robes,With tomes of beaten jade spread knee to ...
Full Orchestra (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
MY words are the poor footmen of your pride,Of what you cry, you trumpets, each to eachWith mouths of air; ...