My Country Comments
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
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Additional verse: I mourn the burnt koalas And the toasted kangaroos And deadly spreading bushfires Of smokey orange hues If only we had leaders To meet our country’s need With policies for climate change And not rewarding greed!
my favourite inspiring poem from one of australias best poets taught to us at school in the 1950's. dorothea mackellar.s grave and tombstone can be found in the old heritage cemetary overlooking the pacific ocean at Waverley in Sydney.
Hi there are we still at work for the church and we can do it a few times a while back and we will go get it a bit later on it is there something I will do to do it and I can help with that this morning I can get you some more water water to water and water it will help me get to water and then I can do a lot more for you I don’t get it I will go to get your help I don’t want you going on a trip or you can go get your car
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, a very fine poem. tony
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I never heard of this poet before or read this poem, but I recognize the phrase sunburnt country from Bill Bryson Jr.’s memoir In a Sunburnt Country. This, I think, is an impressive poem for a nineteen year old to have written with its many fresh and descriptive phrases. And the contrast drawn between the first and second stanzas makes me think of the difference between the eastern U.S. and where I live in New Mexico. -GK
Wherever I may die I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly Splendid nostalgic thoughts well crafted Congratulations for selected as member poem of the day.
The Country the birth place is mother like sheltering for everyone /// its beautiful poem penned by Dorothea Mackellar
Love for country is eminent from this poem. Nicely thought and written.
Nice patriotism is beautifully composed in this poem! Reading this poem gives great pleasure indeed!
Always remember the second verse. Should be taught in schools 4th grade. We are loosing our history due to political correctness. Bring it back.
No, they are stanzas. Also, pity about the spelling of “lose”. In fact I was taught this poem more than 60 years ago in primary school; we all were. I think that the first stanza is just as important as the second. In these modern times of the encroachment of the desert everywhere, the failure of the Murray-Darling system, and the swallowing of farmland by expanding suburbs, I wonder if she would again pen this poem.
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7/28/2025 7:56:14 PM # 1.0.0
John Griffiths - good try, but it's currently hit the " flooding rains" bit. Perhaps you should have read the whole poem!