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James Lionel Michael

I lived from 1824-1865. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

Born in London, 1824; eldest son of James Walter Michael, Solicitor, and Rose Lemon-Hart. Articled to his father and became a Solicitor; was a friend of Millais and others of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Came to Australia, 1853; practised in Sydney, and subsequently at Grafton, Clarence River, where Kendall entered his office in 1857.
Found drowned in Clarence River with a wound in his skull, 1865.
`Songs without Music' (Sydney, 1857).
`John Cumberland' [Sydney, n.d. (1860)].

My poetry

  • Through Pleasant Paths
    Through pleasant paths, through dainty ways,
    Love leads my feet;
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • The Eye of the Beholder
    IF, as they tell in stories old,
    The waters of Pactolus roll’d
    56 lines
  • Personality
    A change! no, surely, not a change,
    The change must be before we die;
    48 lines
  • Memory
    As a Hen fears for her chickens, when the shadow
    Of the forest-eagle’s wing comes floating over,
    28 lines

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