Judith Wright White Poems

• 1. Trapped Dingo
  So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red
  your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear,
  they crushed out your throat the terrible song
  you sang in the dark ranges. With what crying
  ...
• 2. The Trains
  Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass
  in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder
  shaking the orchards, waking
  the young from a dream, scattering like glass
  ...
• 3. Egrets
  Once as I travelled through a quiet evening,
  I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still.
  Beyond, the slender paperbarks stood crowding;
  each on its own white image looked its fill,
  ...
• 4. Northern River
  When summer days grow harsh
  my thoughts return to my river,
  fed by white mountain springs,
  beloved of the shy bird, the bellbird,
  ...
• 5. To A Child
  When I was a child I saw
  a burning bird in a tree.
  I see became I am,
  I am became I see.
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• 6. Late Spring
  The moon drained white by day
  lifts from the hill
  where the old pear-tree fallen in storm
  springs up in blossom still.
  ...
• 7. Train Journey
  Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,
  out of the confused hammering dark of the train
  I looked and saw under the moon's cold sheet
  your delicate dry breasts, country that built my heart;
  ...
• 8. Metho Drinker
  Under the death of winter's leaves he lies
  who cried to Nothing and the terrible night
  to be his home and bread. 'O take from me
  the weight and waterfall ceaseless Time
  ...
• 9. Magpies
  Along the road the magpies walk
  with hands in pockets, left and right.
  They tilt their heads, and stroll and talk.
  In their well-fitted black and white.
  ...

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