John Shaw Neilson White 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.
  ...
• 2. Tell Summer That I Died
  When he was old and thin
  And knew not night or day
  He would sit up to say
  Something of the fire within.
  ...
• 3. 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:
  ...
• 4. The Land Where I Was Born
  HAVE you ever been down to my countree
  Where the trees are green and tall?
  The days are long and the heavens are high,
  But the people there are small.
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• 5. 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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• 6. 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?�
  ...
• 7. 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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