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Born in September 2, 1871 / Died in February 2, 1933 / Australia / English

Poems by John Le Gay Brereton

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At The Age Of 35

... And self-contempt whose secret penance wrings ...

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Home

... " say you. Wandering winds reply: ...

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When my time is come

...   Questing through the darkened room ...

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To My Mother

...   And flare, with increasing heat and splendour, home ...

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The Grave

... That since she cast the first dull clod on me ...

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Death

... Can he come, little chap with the eyes that brought light out of heaven to earth ...

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The War After The War

...   What you have shed man’s blood for, fight for still ...

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The Wounded

...   Where war’s black ploughshare turns the bloody sand ...

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The Nepean

...   I quenched my drouth with delicate sips, ...

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July

...   ’Twas Jack-o’-Winter hailed it first, ...

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Merlin

...   Be drunk still with th’ enchanted wine you’ve quaffed ...

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Spring

...   In maddening flight through heaven’s thin flood of fire ...

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Yorick

...   You have laughed and bidden us laugh, O lord of jest ...

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Transports

...   A foul, bleak age of pain that yields ...

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Incarnation

...   We can but let her learn the sound of human speech ...