The Metaphysical Poets wrote as if God was in heaven and all was well down here on earth
Henry Lawson 1867–1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary, Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period [...]
The Man from Snowy River There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around That the colt from old Regret had got away, And had joined [...]
uguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red Breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Australian Women Trailblazers Queensland-State-Archives Judith Wright The Five Senses Now my five senses gather into a meaning all acts, all presences; and as a lily gathers the elements together, in [...]
MECHTHILD OF MADGEBURG: 1207-1282 Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word, No more than a honeybee Takes on his foot From an [...]
uguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red Breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
The photo below is of my first childhood house at Waterview, via South Grafton. It was taken several decades after my time spent there within the [...]
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — [...]
Swallowed By The River She’s not had such fun in a long while. Donny is like a dolphin in the water, all slick and oily skinned, diving down and up [...]
