John Shaw Neilson Heart Poems

• 1. The Orange Tree
  The young girl stood beside me.
  I Saw not what her young eyes could see:
  - A light, she said, not of the sky
  Lives somewhere in the Orange Tree.
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• 2. Beauty Imposes
  Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring,
  Grave as the urge within the honeybuds,
  It wounds us as we sing.
  
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• 3. To A Blue Flower
  I would be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king;
  But I can talk plainly to you, you little blue flower of the Spring!
  Here in the heart of September the world that I walk in is full
  Of the hot happy sound of the shearing, the rude heavy scent of the wool.
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• 4. O Heart Of Spring
  O HEART of Spring!
  Spirit of light and love and joyous day,
  So soon to faint beneath the fiery Summer:
  Still smiles the Earth, eager for thee alway:
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• 5. Schoolgirls Hastening
  Fear it has faded and the night:
  The bells all peal the hour of nine:
  The schoolgirls hastening through the light
  Touch the unknowable Divine.
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• 6. The Gentle Water Bird (for Mary Gilmore)
  In the far days, when every day was long,
  Fear was upon me and the fear was strong,
  Ere I had learned the recompense of song.
  
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• 7. The Loving Tree
  Three women walked upon a road,
  And the first said airily,
  â??Of all the trees in all the world
  Which is the loving tree?�
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• 8. Old Granny Sullivan
  A pleasant shady place it is, a pleasant place and cool -
  The township folk go up and down, the children pass to school.
  Along the river lies my world, a dear sweet world to me:
  I sit and learn - I cannot go; there is so much to see.
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• 9. You And Yellow Air
  YOU, AND YELLOW AIR by John Shaw Neilson
  I dream of an old kissing-time
  And the flowered follies there;
  In the dim place of cherry-trees,
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