Above Eurunderee Comments
There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,
On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.
Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breeze
From his dark lonely gullies of stringy-bark trees,
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I stood by that creek! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Beautifully penned on beauty on local landmark. A beautiful poem has been shared amazingly.
The changes wrought by the passage of time and progress, well told in a poem with rhythm and rhyme
'For the years waste away like the waters that leak Through the pebbles and sand of Eurunderee Creek'.....So full of longing for the things past! Beautiful, lyrical and singsong!
Such a wonderful write by Henry Lawson...............................
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7/30/2025 5:04:46 PM # 1.0.0
A wonderful poem with fascinating rhymes. The love for a land lost in the memory of the past speaks out. Loved the poem a lot. 'And I thought of old things, and I thought of old folks, Till I sighed in my heart to the sigh of the oaks; For the years waste away like the waters that leak Through the pebbles and sand of Eurunderee Creek' - the poem ends so beautifully!