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John Shaw Neilson's Poetry, by title

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  • A Protest And A Protest
    A certain old maid at Port Victor
    had many strange pets to afflict her,
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Beauty Imposes [2]
    Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring,
    Grave as the urge within the honeybuds,
    10 lines
  • In the Dim Counties
    In the dim counties
    we take the long calm
    33 lines
  • Love's Calling
    QUIETLY as rosebuds
    Talk to thin air,
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • May
    Shyly the silver-hatted mushrooms make
        Soft entrance through,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Native Companions Dancing
    On the blue plains in wintry days
      The stately birds move in the dance.
    8 lines, 4 comments
  • O Heart Of Spring
    O HEART of Spring! 
      Spirit of light and love and joyous day, 
    25 lines
  • Old Granny Sullivan
    A pleasant shady place it is, a pleasant place and cool --
    The township folk go up and down, the children pass to school.
    38 lines
  • Ownerless
    He comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming
      And limelights are trained on the tops of the gums,
    59 lines
  • Schoolgirls Hastening
    Fear it has faded and the night:
    The bells all peal the hour of nine:
    16 lines
  • Song Be Delicate
    Let your song be delicate.
      The skies declare
    23 lines
  • Song for a Singer
    When you go underground with all your airs,
    Your kindly lies and your ridiculous prayers,
    18 lines
  • Tell Summer That I Died
    When he was old and thin
    And knew not night or day
    16 lines
  • The Break Of Day
    THE STARS are pale. 
      Old is the Night, his case is grievous, 
    14 lines
  • The Crane is My Neighbour
    The bird is my neighbour, a whimsical fellow and dim;
    There is in the lake a nobility falling on him.
    19 lines
  • The Gentle Water Bird (for Mary Gilmore)
    In the far days, when every day was long,
    Fear was upon me and the fear was strong,
    62 lines
  • The Green Singer
    ALL singers have shadows
    That follow like fears,
    26 lines, 2 comments
  • The Land Where I Was Born
    HAVE you ever been down to my countree 
      Where the trees are green and tall? 
    43 lines
  • The Loving Tree
    Three women walked upon a road,
    And the first said airily,
    68 lines
  • The Meeting Of Sighs
    YOUR voice was the rugged 
      old voice that I knew; 
    16 lines
  • The Orange Tree
    The young girl stood beside me.    
    I Saw not what her young eyes could see:
    48 lines, 2 comments
  • The Poor Can Feed the Birds
    Ragged, unheeded, stooping, meanly shod,
    The poor pass to the pond: not far away
    38 lines
  • The Poor, Poor Country
    Oh 'twas a poor country, in Autumn it was bare,
    The only green was the cutting grass and the sheep found little there.
    29 lines
  • The Smoker Parrot
    He has the full moon on his breast,
    The moonbeams are about hs wing;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • To A Blue Flower
    I would be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king;
    But I can talk plainly to you, you little blue flower of the Spri
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • You And Yellow Air
    I DREAM of an old kissing-time
      And the flowered follies there;
    43 lines
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