Birth : a little journal of Australian poetry

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N 821.05 A BIR
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Melbourne : Melbourne Literary Club, 1916-
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Vol. 5 No. 58 (September 1921)
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Birth  

Little Journal of Australian Poetry  

Price Threepence.  

Vol. 5.  

SEPTEMBER, 1921.  

No. 58.  

THE DEAD QUEEN.  

They said she had strange ways and fed the poor,  

That she could read old books and cross the wise,  

And that she held much speech with serf and boor,  

For clog and shoe were equal in her eyes.  

They said that her young robes could awe the Nine,  

And set the proudest embassy to school;  

Yet she would close the charters of her line  

To melt in tender laughter at her fool.  

They said she did not end her grace with men,  

But honored from her birth until her death  

The smallest stirring thing within its den  

That shared with her the magic beat of breath.  

All this, and more, they said about her there,  

And I—what was their murmuring to me,  

Who could remember but her knot of hair,  

Her eyes like Spanish shells that stoup the sea?  

Eileen Duggan.  

POST MERIDIAN.  

The time has come for quiet, heart of mine,  

The time has come for quiet. Nevermore  

Those siren voices from the farther shore  

Shall draw thy barque to essay the treacherous brine  

Of seas uncharted. Here all hope resign  

Of making landfall never made before  

On strange wild coasts whose havens blue pe’er bore  

Of any ship the keel, save only thine.  

Dreaming amid the dusk of the dying day  

Beside thy hearth-fire when the world is still,  

Only in dreams thou’lt sight the Hesperides!  

Only in dreams wilt thou, awaiting, hear  

The cry “Land Ho!” the white birds’ screaming shrill,  

And the long-remembered surge of thunderous seas.  

Helen Power.  

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