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James Lister Cuthbertson

I lived from 1851-1910. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

James Lister Cuthbertson, was born in Scotland in 1851. He received his education at both Glenalmond, and Merton College, Oxford, from where he graduated with B.A.

He arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1874. He taught as a Senior Classical Master at Geelong Grammar School, in Victoria from 1875-96.

His works include:
`Barwon Ballads' (Melbourne, 1893).

My poetry

  • Ode to Apollo
    "Tandem venias precamur
    Nube candentes humeros amictus
    76 lines
  • The Australian Sunrise
    The Morning Star paled slowly, the Cross hung low to the sea,
    And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free,
    13 lines, 11 comments
  • The Bush
    GIVE us from dawn to dark
    Blue of Australian skies,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • At Cape Schanck
    Down to the lighthouse pillar
    The rolling woodland comes,
    57 lines
  • To a Billy
    OLD BILLY—battered, brown and black
    With many days of camping,
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • Wattle and Myrtle
    GOLD of the tangled wilderness of wattle,
    Break in the lone green hollows of the hills,
    24 lines
  • Corona Inutilis
    I TWINED a wreath of heather white
    To bind my lady’s hair,
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Australian Federata
    AUSTRALIA! land of lonely lake
    And serpent-haunted fen;
    40 lines
  • Solitude
    This is the maiden Solitude, too fair
    For mortal eyes to gaze on--she who dwells
    14 lines
  • A Racing Eight
    WHO knows it not, who loves it not,
        The long and steady swing,
    25 lines

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