William Baylebridge
Who is William Baylebridge
William Baylebridge (12 December 1883 – 7 May 1942), born Charles William Blocksidge, was an Australian writer, poet, and political theorist.
Baylebridge was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of George Henry Blocksidge. He studied at Brisbane Grammar School, then under a private tutor, the classicist David Owen.
In 1908, he sailed to London with his friend (and future brother-in-law) Robert Graham Brown. He travelled extensively throughout the Continent, absorbing much of the intellectual milieu of that period. At that same time, he published several volumes of juvenilia, starting with Songs o’ the South in 1908, which was published by the secularist Charles Albert Watts. These early works were generally poorly received, and later, in order to dissociate himself f...
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William Baylebridge Poems
- Life And Death
This world is driven by two contending powers--
Love, that coerceth Heaven to dwell with dust,
And that dire pledge of Hell's self-perjured Lust--
And as we list must Heaven and Hell be ours.
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- Flesh And Spirit
No! 'twas the questing dream that first achieved her--
More sensed for knowing no material part,
More real that no false outward eye perceived her,
Too gross, but that pure eye within my heart.
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- Love's Saint
Some lip will use her name--a rapt surprise,
Passing the heart's set ward, upon me steals.
One word, to me, doth one saint canonize;
And all the acquest of earth and heaven it seals. ...
- Ii From Life-s Testament
The brain, the blood, the busy thews
That quickened in the primal ooze
Support me yet; till ice shall grip
The heart of Earth, no strength theyâ??ll lose....
- After The Storm
The storm is done--the lightning with its lust
To rend the unhallowed dome in ruin dire;
The purple heaps, from the rank chaos thrust
On sheets of fell and inauspicious fire; ...
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- Book_addict: happy birthday australian writer and poet william baylebridge (charles blocksidge)(december 12, 1883)., author of "this vital flesh" (1939) et al.
- Book_addict: happy birthday australian writer and poet william baylebridge (charles blocksidge)(december 12, 1883)., author of "this vital flesh" (1939) et al.
- Book_addict: happy birthday australian writer and poet william baylebridge (charles blocksidge)(december 12, 1883). "this vital flesh" (1939) et al.
- Musicrecbot: take a listen to:
true being by william baylebridge
- Book_addict: happy birthday australian writer and poet william baylebridge (charles blocksidge)(december 12, 1883). "this vital flesh" (1939) et al.
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