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Mary Hannay Foott
26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | At the Fords of Jordan | A little way farther to guide thee I go | | 52 | 585 | | Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant | The coup d’etat is blotted out | 1870 | 48 | 544 | | David’s Lament for Jonathan | Thou wast hard pressed, yet God concealed this thing | | 44 | 754 | | For Charles Dickens | Above our dear Romancer’s dust | 1870 | 32 | 778 | | Happy Days | A fringe of rushes, one green line | | 16 | 820 | | In Memoriam C. G. Gordon | Devotion! When thy name is named, | 01-1885 | 30 | 756 | | In the Land of Dreams | A bridle-path in the tangled mallee, | 1882 | 16 | 839 | | In the South Pacific | A vision of a savage land, A glimpse of cloud-ringed seas; | | 32 | 754 | | In Time of Drought | The rushes are black by the river bed, | | 24 | 739 | | Napoleon III | His silent spirit from the place | 1873 | 40 | 611 | | Nearing Port | A blue line to the westward that surely is not cloud; | | 40 | 926 | | New Country | Condè had come with us all the way, | | 26 | 589 | | No Message | She heard the story of the end, | | 32 | 599 | | Sonnets - I - Christmas Day | O happy day, with seven-fold blessings set | | 14 | 569 | | Sonnets - II - The New Year | With supple boughs and new-born leaflets crowned, | | 14 | 573 | | The Aurora Australis | A radiance in the midnight sky | | 44 | 582 | | The Australiad - (A poem for children.) | Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain, | 1884 | 134 | 561 | | The Belated Swallow | Belated swallow, whither flying? | | 28 | 542 | | The Fate Of Bass - (A Fancy) | On the snow-line of the summit stood the Spaniard’s English slave; | | 28 | 772 | | The Future of Australia | Sing us the Land of the Southern Sea, | | 68 | 769 | | The Magi to the Star | Star, on thy Heaven-returning way, | | 48 | 717 | | The Massacre of the Bards | The sunlight from the sky is swept, | | 70 | 567 | | The Melbourne International Exhibition | Ceased is the sound of the chisel, and hushed is the hammer’s ring, | 1880 | 90 | 552 | | To Henry the Fifth | My youth was passing, Sire, whilst you among | | 27 | 566 | | To the Virgin Mary | Mother of Him we call the Christ, | | 64 | 585 | | To the White Julienne | Again above thy fragile flowers | | 24 | 576 | | Up North | Into Thy hands let me fall, O Lord, | | 20 | 578 | | Watch-Night | Midnight, musical and splendid, | | 42 | 574 | | Wentworth | Tis a new thing for Australia that the waters to her bear | 1873 | 30 | 574 | | Where the Pelican Builds | The horses were ready, the rails were down, | 1881 | 24 | 591 |
About:
Mary Hannay Foott (26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918), was an Australian poet and editor who is best remembered for the poem "Where the pelican builds".
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