My Country by Dorothea Mackeller

My Country Poem by Dorothea Mackeller, Read Dorothea Mackeller poem:The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens,

My Country

My Country, The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft dim skies I know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise, 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

My Country by Dorothea Mackellar

At 19 years old she wrote a poem, ‘My Country‘, the second verse of which is perhaps the best known stanza in Australian poetry, Her family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and it is in this town which claims her as their own, there a statue of her on horseback has been erected, Dorothea died in 1968, Read more → Browse all Famous poems > By Dorothea

My Country by Dorothea Mackeller

Her poem My Country is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: “I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains,” more… All Dorothea Mackeller poems , Dorothea Mackeller Books, FAVORITE 0 fans Discuss this Dorothea Mackeller poem with the community: 0 Comments, Notify me of new comments via email

My Country

The Poem – My Country by Dorothea Mackellar The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies I know, but cannot share it, My love is otherwise, I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains, I

MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackellar

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My Country is a rhyming poem, fourteen stanzas in length, The opening two stanzas describe the British landscape, but this is not the country the young Dorothea Mackellar yearns for, The genre is part of bush poetry and does not tell a story, This poem deals with nature descriptions about Australia, It was written in order to inform people about the beauty and the wilderness of this country

MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackellar

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My Country is a rhyming poem, fourteen stanzas in length, The opening two stanzas describe the British landscape, but this is not the country the young Dorothea Mackellar yearns for, The genre is part of bush poetry and does not tell a story, This poem deals with nature descriptions about Australia, It was written in order to inform people about the beauty and the wilderness of this country

Dorothea Mackellar: “My Country”, The love of field and

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My Country: recited by Dorothea Mackellar

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My Country Poem Summary and Analysis

“My Country” is a patriotic poem by Australian writer Dorothea Mackellar, Inspired by a conversation Mackellar with a friend after the two had visited England, the poem praises the vast, rugged splendor of the Australian wilderness over the gentler charms of the English countryside, “My Country” acknowledges the harsh and the beautiful elements of Mackellar’s native landscape and treats both

My Country by Dorothea Mackellar

My Country, Rating: ★ 3,7, The love of my favourite inspiring poem from one of australias best poets taught to us at school in the 1950’s, dorothea mackellar,s grave and tombstone can be found in the old heritage cemetary overlooking the pacific ocean at Waverley in Sydney, 1 0 Reply, Bobby man dam 23 September 2019, Hi there are we still at work for the church and we can do it a …

In My Country

Poems, In My Country, People often ask me where I’m from, even in my own country – I seem to have a whole collection of strange anecdotes of people doing that, I’m going to sit down in a pub on a chair in London and this woman went “You cannae sit in that chair, It’s my chair,” And me saying to her, “Oh right, you’re from Glasgow aren’t you?”

My Country

‘My Country’ is an iconic Australian poem, Your teacher will show you the example from the State Library Collection of, ‘My Country’, A poem by Dorothea Mackellar with decorations and illustrations by J,J, Hilder, Sydney 1915′ Read the poem and pay close attention to the rhyming pattern and the illustrations for each verse,