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Dorothea Mackellar

I lived from 1885-1968. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in 1885 into a well-established, wealthy family, and was educated privately at the University of Sydney. At 19 years old she wrote a poem, 'My Country', the second verse of which is perhaps the best known stanza in Australian poetry. Her family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and it is in this town which claims her as their own, there a statue of her on horseback has been erected.

Dorothea died in 1968

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  • My Country
    The love of field and coppice,
    Of green and shaded lanes.
    52 lines, 42 comments
  • Fire
    This life that we call our own
    Is neither strong nor free;
    12 lines, 6 comments
  • The Colours Of Light
    This is not easy to understand
    For you that come from a distant land
    48 lines, 4 comments
  • Colour
    The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,
    Unknowing, day by day,
    38 lines, 7 comments
  • The Open Sea
    From my window I can see,
    Where the sandhills dip,
    53 lines, 4 comments
  • Burning Off
    They're burning off at the Rampadells,
    The tawny flames uprise,
    28 lines, 3 comments
  • The Waiting Life
    Since it befell, with work and strife
    I had not time to live my life
    13 lines, 5 comments
  • Dawn
    At the dawning of the day,
    On the road to Gunnedah,
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • An Old Song
    The almond bloom is overpast, the apple blossoms blow.
    I never loved but one man, and I never told him so.
    7 lines, 3 comments
  • In A Southern Garden
    WHEN the tall bamboos are clicking to the restless little breeze,
    And bats begin their jerky skimming flight,
    19 lines, 1 comment
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