Dorothea Mackellar
Australian poet (1885–1968)
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, quoted below.
 |
This article on an author is a stub. You can help out with Wikiquote by expanding it! |
Quotes
edit- 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!- "Core of My Heart" (1908); "My Country" (1911)
- The Spectator (5 September 1908), The Closed Door (1911), The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914)
