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Vaguely outlined and bubble-frail - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"

For beauty has butterfly wings - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"

Vanishing in broken light - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"

Her troubling beauty's power - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"

Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"

Worked with rose and saffron - Dorothea Mackellar "Bazar"

One ceaseless shower of gold - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

All hail the king of fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

In his robe of falling stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

And the shining host of stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

Flowing silent in the shade - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

When the tree-frogs chant in choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

With your comrades of the mask - Dorothea Mackellar "The Closed Door"

Ghosts of long-dead hours - Dorothea Mackellar "The Closed Door"

Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

Veined with scarlet flame - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

A flame in the wind of death - Dorothea Mackellar "Fire"

Stand stripped to stick and thorn - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"

Hear her million voices hum - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"

Bare to turquoise skies - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

Not enough to cover the quaking mud - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

Wind-fiends hunt the water - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"

Wind-shorn and struggling still - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"

A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"

Love of grey-blue distance - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

The tragic ring-barked forests - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

The hot gold hush of noon - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

And orchids deck the tree tops - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

An opal-hearted country - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

Scornful stars in the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Night on the Plains"

The terrible mirth of the stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Night on the Plains"

Grey with the roadside dust - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"

Sought in the bitter wind - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"

A trinket at your girdle hangs - Dorothea Mackellar "Reminder"

Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"

Trails of periwinkle among the brambles - Dorothea Mackellar "The Road to Ronda"

Where the pale sea melts into the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"

The only soul left without wings - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"

The wind's caress bears you along - Dorothea Mackellar "Seagull"

The linden leaves are falling - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

And sooner comes the dark - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

Between us and the distance - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

Answers from a thousand throats - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Running knee-deep in the fern - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Only Pan walks hourly here - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

When the waves are mingled milk and fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

With the stars' great golden choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Set thick with moss-grown boulders - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

While we unheeding pass - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Wreathed with starry clematis - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Crouched huddling on my hearthstone - Dorothea Mackellar "Sorrow"

Spice of the first warm wind - Dorothea Mackellar "Spring on the Plains"

The swallows without number - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

Chattering in the greying dawn - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"


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