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Edwin James Brady

I lived from 1869-1952. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

I influenced poets Henry Lawson, John Masefield.

He was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney. He worked as a wharf clerk, a farmer, and journalist, and edited both rural and city newspapers. He was a friend and correspondent of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Australian prime minister, and helped to save Henry Lawson's life in 1910. He later established a writers' and artists' colony at Mallacoota, in 1909, and he continued to live there until his death in 1952 at the age of 83.

Poetry Books:

The Ways of Many Waters (1899)
The Earthen Floor (1902)
The Ways of Many Waters (1909) (same set of poems but illustrations added)
Bushland ballads 1910
Bells and Hobbles (1911)
The House of the Winds (1919)
Wardens of the Seas (1933)

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My poetry

  • The Gale
    It came upon us sudden; six solid hours it blew
    As if a thousand devils had gallivanted through
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • Lost And Given Over
    A Mermaid’s not a human thing, 
      An’ courtin’ such is folly; 
    99 lines, 1 comment
  • The Wardens Of The Seas
    Like star points in the ether to guide a homing soul
    Towards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,
    89 lines
  • Vive Anarchy
    With the lifting of the curtain,
    Distance, dim, but grimly certain,
    62 lines
  • The Great Grey Water
    Now two have met, now two have met,
    Who may not meet again—
    41 lines, 1 comment
  • Sailor-Man
    'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --
    'Opes y'll live to be a nundred; 'opes yer luck'll bring y
    118 lines, 3 comments

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