Who is Arthur Bayldon
Arthur Bayldon (20 March 1865 – 26 September 1958) was an English-born Australian poet.Bayldon was born in 1865, at Leeds, England, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School. He emigrated to Australia in 1889 prior to which he had travelled extensively in Europe. He was an excellent swimmer, and drew much attention to a stroke of his own invention — underwater on his back, with legs and arms bound.He was literary critic for The Bulletin, and as a bush poet has been ranked with Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, Will Ogilvie, E. J. Brady, and Rod Quinn.He died in 1958, aged 93.
Bibliography
Poetry collections
Lays and Lyrics (1887)
Poems (1897)
The Western Track and Other Verses (1905)
The Eagles : Collected Poem...
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Arthur Bayldon Poems
- The Sea
Ere Greece soared, showering sovranties of light,
Ere Rome shook earth with her tremendous tread,
Ere yon blue-feasting sun-god burst blood-red,
Beneath thee slept thy prodigy, O Night! ... - To Poesy
These vessels of verse, O Great Goddess, are filled with invisible tears,
With the sobs and sweat of my spirit and her desolate brooding for years;
See, I lay them -- not on thine altar, for they are unpolished and plain,
Not rounded enough by the potter, too much burnt in the furnace of pain; ... - A Woman's Mood
I think to-night I could bear it all,
Even the arrow that cleft the core, --
Could I wait again for your swift footfall,
And your sunny face coming in at the door. ... - Marlowe
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... - The Dead Poet
Never again shall he with wizard sleight
Ensare on threshold of his soul the bright
Unearthly splendors that would oft alight,
And in the magic web of melody ...
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