 | Bertram Stevens - Australian poetry - 1912 - 408 pages
...grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft, dim skiesI know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains,...horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me ! The stark white ring-barked forests. All tragic to the moon,... | |
 | Florence Gay - Aboriginal Australians - 1912 - 276 pages
...cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I...horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me ! The stark white ring-barked forests, All tragic to the moon,... | |
 | Sir Walter Murdoch - Australian poetry - 1924 - 306 pages
...grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skiesI know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains,...horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me ! The stark white ring-barked forests, All tragic to the moon,... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 882 pages
...want to welcome you, Mr. Prime Minister, with just a few lines from a grand poem. It begins like this: "I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains;...flooding rains. "I love her far horizons, I love her jeweled sea, Her beauty and her terror, The wide brown land for me." The poem ends: »"Though earth... | |
 | Manning Clark - History - 1993 - 620 pages
...poem, 'My Country', first published in the London Spectator's 1908, she uncovered the love of her life: I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains,...horizons I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me! Mr Deakin also believed that Australians were mature enough... | |
 | Tessa Morris-Suzuki - History - 1998 - 264 pages
...And in Australia almost every child knows at least part of Dorothea McKellar's poem, "My Country": I love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains,...ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. (Quoted in Bambrick 1994, 15) This splendid evocation of the vast arid plains of northwestern New South... | |
 | Lorna Sage - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 708 pages
...novelist) known to generations of Australian schoolchildren and choristers for the patriotic manifesto: I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains,...ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. This actually begins the second stanza of 'My Country', originally published as 'Core of My Heart'... | |
 | Peter M. Clutterbuck - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 108 pages
...six girls, my cat, each girl Look at the adjectives in the poem 'My Country' by Dorothea MacKellar. l love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains....ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. • What sort of country does she describe? A sunburnt country. • What sort of plains? - Sweeping... | |
 | Aleta Baskerville, Patrick Wagner - English language - 2000 - 120 pages
...a heritage that's dead Kevin Gilbert I love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewelled seas, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar Gilbert,... | |
 | Pamela K. Gilbert - History - 2002 - 272 pages
...woods and gardens Is running in your veins. . . . I know but cannot share it. My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains,...horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror— The wide brown land for me! (in Lever 59) Louise Mack went so far as to commit a kind of... | |
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I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me... 
