Joseph Furphy Thought Poems

  • 1.
    Sing the evil days we see, and the worse that are to be,
    In such doggerel as dejection will allow,
    We are pilgrims, sorrow-led, with no Beulah on ahead,
    No elysian Up the Country for us now.
    ...
  • 2.
    (From 'An Idyll of the Wimmera.')

    On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries join
    At a level and interminable lane
    ...
  • 3.
    Though some good folks may take it ill,
    As trifling with parsonic frill,
    Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,
    In admonition stern and straight:â??
    ...
  • 4.
    â??Are you the Cove?â? he spoke the words
    As swagmen only can;
    The Squatter freezingly inquired,
    â??What do you mean, my man?â?
    ...
  • 5.
    Johnny's drowned â?? here's his clo'es
    Where he's got to, we dunno;
    Sure enough, he never rose;
    So we thought we'd let you know.
    ...
  • 6.
    A spectral film that came and went,
    In its elusive way gave vent
    In some unreal words which meant;
    'I think therefore I am.'
    ...
  • 7.
    Opposed to Jewish Temple-rites,
    Strange to the lore of Greece,
    That message comes from starry heights,
    A key to lasting Peace.
    ...
  • 8.
    Tell me not in future numbers
    That our thought becomes inane,
    That our metre halts and lumbers,
    When the Wattle blooms again.
    ...
Total 8 Thought Poems by Joseph Furphy

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