by 'Vileyse'(1883) There is much beauty in a woodland scene In England, when the changing leaflets fall; Or when the fields are covered with a...

by E.M. England    So softly I go that the heron Who waits downstream has not stirred. Perhaps he thinks me a bird; Thinks me a brown bird gliding The...

by Peter Miles    It was good to lie in the sun discovering the texture of the wind and its pure pattern like a blind man in great folds of pure silk;...

by Alice Gore-Jones    A red cathedral's tiles, a tapering spire Piercing her gaunt zinc roofs, the city lies. Dim blue hills rise about her...

BRISBANE City of the seven hills and the high-lord Sun,Cool with jade gums, hot with Poinsettia's flame-tongued blooms,Circled by sheening river, as...

by Emily Bulcock    (Written at St. Helen's Hospital before an operation)  I saw you rise, proud tower, slow, sure and strong, And chaos change to...

Death in the Bush                   George Vowles   A DEATH on the dismal plain, Where man never trod before; Where bones lie bleached with the rain, As shells on a...

By Martin Haley    The day of the Midsummer Solstice. We speed along by the Ithaca Baths. A heat wave rages. People of all sorts, shapes and sizes...

by Arthur Wade    Flat, Featureless, Foetid; Muddy as the mass mind of multitudes. Brown, Like a sere cloth Scorched in the flames of Hell. White,...

by Frank C Francis    The music and the laughter simmer down Like an ebbing tide that slinks into the dark, As the last bright firework splutters to a...

by Victor Kennedy    Away before the stretching eyes The little valley lies, And who would not be out with me along the tropic way? We sipped the wine of...

by James Brunton Stephens    Extract from "From an Upper Verandah" What happier haunt could the gods allot For loftiest musing to sage or bard?- Yet I would...

by Paul L Grano      This is where the People take tea- salmon rissoles, two, and chips for sevenpence, meat pie, potato mash, a penny less- this is...

by Francis Kenna    A thousand miles and more to the westward, Somewhere the city lies, I strain mine eyes for the glare reflected Up in the starlight...

  Farewell, old hills! No more my feet shall tread you To find the dingo’s den or emu’s nest; Beneath the eucalypts that overspread you,  No...

  Her richest treasures with a lavish hand, I'll tell thee of a spot where Nature sheds Where, bright and soft, her Verdant mantle spreads 'Neath...

By Laurence Collinson[1] Into the gutters gushed the tedious rain and overflowed on to his step-worn shoes. he trod the puddled cobbles of the...

by Lucille M Quinlan    Sleep, my birrahlee;1 hush, my soft grey dove! Misty grows the cane-field, purple the range above. From the scrub by the...

by Peter Miles    The boom of the surf again in rising wind…. For a long while now I have been remembering That stark sweet music in continuous...

by Victor Kennedy    Gold upon the mountain side, Gold in rock and river, Gold in men whose spirits ride From the vast Forever To seek again the better time,...

by E.M.England    Other lovers will have found it now, Or, over-run with undergrowth and bough, It may lie list'ning to the surf's mild thunder-        I...

by Emily Bulcock    As softly as the touch of moth's frail wing, As imperceptibly as falls the dew, Comes Beauty oft, in dovelike Quaker dress; But the...

by Emily Bulcock    Midwinter clutches on the skirts of June- And lays her blighting touch on bud and flower, Her west winds, shrilling, play an eerie...

by K.H.Bradshaw    Sunday afternoon has long shadows Of couples in Queen Street;  And a sailor sits on the G.P.O. steps. Yellow placards bleat the soft...

by Eva Mary O'Doherty    Thou are, in sooth, a lovely land, As fair as ever fancy painted, In virgin freshness calm and bland, By shadows dark...

From the land beyond the sunset, out beyond the Coral Sea, There’s a balmy breeze a-blowing, and it seems to call to me Through the magic of the...

by E.M. England    Slowly the hours, with their star-dusted hair, Trail past the red-faced and broad-bosomed Moon, There is a stealthy glamour...

Rain at Dusk   Rain past my window, bursting into sprayon roof, in guttering. With shining feetchildren come in and splash, their voices sweetin the...

by Martin Haley    Daily as down the suburb's slope I walk To school that claims a teacher's utter soul For seven timeless hours at a stretch, I who...

by 'Villeyse'    THERE is a long low strip of yellow sand  Bound with a bracelet by the bounteous sea, Of shining shells formed by some fairy hand, And...

Rustic   This is the Land of Wait-a-While.I like it here.I like the big team straining on the hill(Dark forms outlined against the blue).I like great...

  By Thea Astley[1] The crowded trams go past, The faces bright and painted -all the same; No joy to last! Last! you fools! A bit of dazzle came...

by Maurice Little      The people on the southern side, Are feeling most elated, So where you will, you’re bound to hear Their new Exchange debated; It’s...

by June Saunders    Was ever morning lovelier than this Beside a dreaming sea Blue as a cloudy turquoise, and as pale,With Sleep's tranquility? Hushed is...

                   By Lydia M. D. O'Neil LORD, I have laboured for years upon years; I've had my full portion of trouble, and tears. Now- may I rest for an hour or so Up...

  by Llywelyn Lucas      The air at sweet Taringa Is like Taringa's name, Clanging and sweet and streaming forth In a blue morning flame;   The great hills...

I have gazed on sweet Killarney, that Eden of the West, And beauty spots in other lands, where the weary love to rest, And all this scenic beauty...

by Frank C Francis         Bells along the Condamine,      Sabbath chimes falling Like solemn benediction from the church of Goombi hill.      Bells along the...

by Mabel Forrest  In the heart of the timbered country, where the boles of the trees show white, Where long leaves flicker above the grass in the...

by Mabel Forrest        A creaking crane and a swinging weight, the moist, hot dark about us, And the laugh of a girl from the prow, with mirth that seems...

The Child I Was is Still in Me                   By Colin Bingham   The child I was is still in me; I know it when above the plain the fork-tailed hawk expectantly turns...

by Francis Kenna    Never glint of sunlight settles On its walls of granite grey; Dreary, in the glow of sunset; Gloomy, in the rising day. Never echo...

by Victor Kennedy    Out across the bending cane Slowly after seven moons Falls the soaking tropic rain Kindly to the parched ratoons1. And I wander...

by Victor Kennedy    It's well, this tilting of the steady rain That fills each billabong; And yet, my ears are alert again For one cry old and long; It...

by Colin Bingham    THIRTEEN A storm came o'er the hills to-day, And broke in sweeping rain and crashing hail; The great earth shook, and in dismay We...

by James Sweeney    They tell us Sydney's great and grand. I wonder why our statesmen stand For slums that long since be banned – Disgraceful to the...

  I know a dell, where weeds grow rank Along a streamlet's shaded bank,- A lonely, wild, sequestered glen, Far from the dinning noise of men.   The...

by George Essex Evans    They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill, The houses in the busy streets where life is never still, The...

Two triolets[1]                by June Saunders  Triolet, 1934 Blue as a blossom-cup the skyLeans over; and the world is still,Steeped in a drowsy gold.   On...

  ‘WHEN the drought breaks,  And the grass grows, And the cows are deep in clover, I'll take you then for a trip to town You shall buy new shoes, and a...

by Mary Hannay Foott    [The unexplored parts of Australia are sometimes spoken of by the bushmen of Western Queensland as the home of the pelican, a...

by Peter Miles    Grass like small feet following,  wind-worried. Wind in Moreton figs through leaves hand-broad, thick, stiff, through boughs soft...

by James Devaney    Leaning against the wind across the paddock ways Comes Dan home with forward stoop like a man bent and old, Clashes the door in...