Six Voices: Contemporary Australian PoetsChris Wallace-Crabbe Kenneth Slessor - R.D. FitzGerald - A.D. Hope - Douglas Stewart - Judith Wright - James McAuley. |
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... hand in the midst , turning old thoughts , old lives . Quill - marks migrate across a writing - block- it is Joseph Gurney's hand . He heads his page : " Fifth day : it wants a quarter of twelve o'clock : the Chancellor presides " ; so ...
... hand in the midst , turning old thoughts , old lives . Quill - marks migrate across a writing - block- it is Joseph Gurney's hand . He heads his page : " Fifth day : it wants a quarter of twelve o'clock : the Chancellor presides " ; so ...
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... hands still moving inside his own . It was a haunted place , this tower of knowledge , Calm with old books but wild with thoughts unknown , All dark except for lamps like lights of courage Where lonely scholars sought for truth in stone ...
... hands still moving inside his own . It was a haunted place , this tower of knowledge , Calm with old books but wild with thoughts unknown , All dark except for lamps like lights of courage Where lonely scholars sought for truth in stone ...
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... hand upon the wheel That led to this , but the whole drive of the mind Since first that restless radiance tore at its veil , Rock , flesh and sky , to seek what lay behind . And what did lie , as the Greeks guessed so well , Was the ...
... hand upon the wheel That led to this , but the whole drive of the mind Since first that restless radiance tore at its veil , Rock , flesh and sky , to seek what lay behind . And what did lie , as the Greeks guessed so well , Was the ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 1 |
Talbingo | 13 |
An Inscription for Dog River | 21 |
Copyright | |
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