The Witch Maid, and Other Verses

The Witch Maid, and Other Verses by Dorothea Mackellar

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THE WITCH-MAID

&

OTHER VERSES

DOROTHEA MACKELLAR

1914
LONDON AND TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

About a third of these poems have appeared before in a volume published in Australia; several in The Spectator and The Sydney Bulletin, and a few elsewhere. I have to thank the editors for permission to reprint.

CONTENTS

	PAGE
The Witch-Maid	9
The Colours of Light	14
From a Town Window	17
The Santa Maria	19
"Summer is icumen in"	21
Night on the Plains	24
Settlers	25
My Country	29
Swallows	32
Fire	34
High Places	35
The Closed Door	37
Reminder	40
Culgai Paddock	41
Canticle	43
March Winds	46
Colour	47
Non Penso a Lei	50
The Road to Ronda	52
The Moon and the Morning	54
Flower and Thorn	56
The Grey Lake	58
Burning Off	61
An Old Song	63
Bazar	64
Spring on the Plains	66
Pilgrim Song	68
The Coorong Sandhills	69
Two Japanese Songs:
I. The Heart of a Bird	71
II. A Smoke Song	72
An Afterglow on the Nile	73
The Explorer	75
September	77
Riding Rhyme	80
Four Translations from the German	82
Chateau D'espagne	86
Bathing Rhyme	88
Montoro's Song	93
Sea-Fog	95
Sorrow	96
Seagull	97