Jack Cornstalk as a Poet

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



“Not from the seas does he draw inspiration,
Not from the rivers that croon on their bars;
But a wide, a world-old desolation
On a dead land alone with the stars.

The long hot day gone over,
And starlight come again;
And I, weary rover,
Lie camped on One Tree Plain.

My saddle for a pillow,
I lie beneath the tree,
That softens to a willow,
In the moonlight over me.

I dream that I remember
A dim and distant day,
Beyond yon misty timber,
In the Home-world far away.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABAB CXCX DEDE CFCF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 466
Words 93
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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