Leon Gellert
Who is Leon Gellert
Leon Maxwell Gellert (17 May 1892 – 22 August 1977) was an Australian poet.
Early life and education
He was born in Walkerville, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. He was the grandchild of Hungarian immigrants. He was subjected to bullying by his father to which he reacted by learning self-defence at the YMCA.
After an education at Adelaide High School, he embarked on a teaching career; first as a student-teacher at Unley High School then at the University of Adelaide's Teacher Training College.
He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces 10th Battalion within weeks of the outbreak of the Great War and sailed for Cairo on 22 October 1914. He landed at Ari Burnu Beach, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, was wounded and repatriated as medically u...
Read Full Biography
Leon Gellert Poems
- The True Dawn
Go, false dawn, that cometh as a child
With yellow curls!
Hast never known the wild
Unhallowed cry of night!
...
- The Cripple
He totters round and dangles those odd shapes
That were his legs. His eyes are never dim.
He brags about his fame between the tapes,
And laughs the loudest when they laugh at him.
...
- To A Man Who Wished To Die
And now that you are dead, - If I should die
Upon this ground,
And open my new eye,
Iâ??d leave my body dead,
...
- Rapine
She came from some still mossiness
Of quiet ways; and stood with modest hands;
A warmth of body in a shy distress;
A white shell on the sands.
...
- Acceptance
Beside the doors of a keen-lighted hall
I paused, and quite by chance
I noticed Love
Smiling and tall;
...
Read All Poems
Leon Gellert Quotes
Read All Quotes
Comments about Leon Gellert
- Kill81601: i see old shadows creep
along the sleep stream
-leon gellert
- Thecardigankid: "the brolga or australian crane
holds dancing orgies on the plain:
and students of the russian ballet
have crept in crowds across the mallee
far beyond the desert grasses
to where the brolga holds its classes."
-leon gellert, 'the brolga'
- War_poets: 22 october 1914 leon gellert as part of the australian imperial force's 10th battalion embarks on the troopship ascanius for egypt.
- War_poets: 22 august 1914 leon gellert enlists in the australian imperial force and is posted as a corporal to south australia's 10th battalion.
- Ozannemichael: leon gellert.. anzac cove.
Read All Comments