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54 poems — showing 1–48
’Twixt Briton and Boer
Marie E. J. Pitt
They made a war upon the land —1911→War & public life
A Fragment
Marie E. J. Pitt
The dark day dies! Be still my heart, nor sorrow1911→Road, rail & travel
A Gallop of Fire
Marie E. J. Pitt
When the north wind moans thro’ the blind creek courses1911→Sea & travel
A Sea Song
Marie E. J. Pitt
O softer than Slumber and sweeter than Mirth1911→Love & relationships
A Year Ago
Marie E. J. Pitt
You are dying! I hear them say —1911→Sea & travel
Adieu
Marie E. J. Pitt
The day is dying! The auspicious day1911→Sea & travel
Anathema
Marie E. J. Pitt
The earth is cursed! Grey sky and sullen sea1911→War & public life
At Evensong
Marie E. J. Pitt
Grandmother sits, when the light is fading1911→War & public life
Ballade of Devonport
Marie E. J. Pitt
Jasmine and woodbine and rose o’ red,1911→Love & relationships
Ballade of Dreams
Marie E. J. Pitt
Across the loom the shuttles fly,1911→War & public life
Ballade of Illusion
Marie E. J. Pitt
Glint of woodland, and glamour of dew,1911→War & public life
Ballade of the Road
Marie E. J. Pitt
Between the living and the dead,1911→War & public life
Bitter-sweet
Marie E. J. Pitt
The sacred fires are cold,1911→City & society
City Hunger
Marie E. J. Pitt
A tent ’neath the gum trees? — O No! No!1911→City & society
Crooked River
Marie E. J. Pitt
A league o’ brown with lights o’ gold,1911→Work & solidarity
Discontent
Marie E. J. Pitt
Of Beauty one shall sing,1911→City & society
Disinherited
Marie E. J. Pitt
(Here and there, a little apart from the laughing crowd that surged in the traffic-ways of Melbourne streets during Fleet Week, little groups of Aborigines in gaudy second-hand apparel, stood and watched the illuminations.)1911→Love & relationships
Gold and Grey
Marie E. J. Pitt
O lightsome leaps the heart when the year is i’ the gold!1911→City & society
Ishmael
Marie E. J. Pitt
Six off, and still unbroken —1911→Love & relationships
June Roses
Marie E. J. Pitt
O Red Rose of June,1911→War & public life
La Misere
Marie E. J. Pitt
O black Sargasso! choked lagoon where rot1911→War & public life
Look Up
Marie E. J. Pitt
O phantom bars and futile bands!1911→City & society
Lost
Marie E. J. Pitt
Once, when the pall of the dusk had folden1911→Sea & travel
Mountain Myrtle
Marie E. J. Pitt
Myrtle by the mountain rills!1911→War & public life
Phases
Marie E. J. Pitt
Just a flush of pleasure1911→Sea & travel
Prescience
Marie E. J. Pitt
One red rose bud upon Life’s thorny tree,1911→War & public life
Recompense
Marie E. J. Pitt
Let misers keep their gold, kings keep their power,1911→Sea & travel
Red Poppies — White Roses
Marie E. J. Pitt
Red poppy blooms a-flaunting1911→War & public life
Rejected
Marie E. J. Pitt
Frost flecked his hair with many a winter’s flight,1911→Faith & community
Reveille
Marie E. J. Pitt
Up! comrades, up! the night has flown,1911→Sea & travel
Ships
Marie E. J. Pitt
The tide sweeps out across the roaring bar,1911→Sea & travel
Society
Marie E. J. Pitt
O bubble blown on rotting seas of Crime!1911→War & public life
Song of the Axe
Marie E. J. Pitt
A song for the sword! where the red blood poured1911→City & society
Soul Ferry
Marie E. J. Pitt
There’s a mist upon the river1911→War & public life
Spindrift
Marie E. J. Pitt
I dream of wet and where the surf is thrashing1911→Sea & travel
Ta-mahinna
Marie E. J. Pitt
Moon islands out in the shimmering splendour1911→City & society
The City of Sloth
Marie E. J. Pitt
The city of a thousand gates1911→City & society
The Clan Call
Marie E. J. Pitt
I patted the head of a pony,1911→War & public life
The Destroyers
Marie E. J. Pitt
We are the Arch-Destroyers! white-handed, soft and fair,1911→War & public life
The Enslavement
Marie E. J. Pitt
Rail not at Mammon, helots of to-day,1911→Sea & travel
The Heathen of To-day
Marie E. J. Pitt
Haste not, pale zealots, cross in hand,1911→War & public life
The Horses of the Hills
Marie E. J. Pitt
When cohorts of September1911→Work & solidarity
The Keening
Marie E. J. Pitt
We are the women and children1911→Love & relationships
The Lost Fairies
Marie E. J. Pitt
They come no more with the dancing feet,1911→City & society
The Old Love
Marie E. J. Pitt
O Melbourne Town’s a lady,1911→War & public life
The Rebel
Marie E. J. Pitt
Down the Mitchell Kylie bred him, where the rustling reedbeds shiver;1911→War & public life
The Reiver
Marie E. J. Pitt
The floods are out on the flats to-night,1911→Goldfields & work
The Talisman
Marie E. J. Pitt
A star above the stormy wrack1911→