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I Dips Me Lid to the Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Aboriginal Mother

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Five Bells

Poem which sketches the immediacy of Australian life in the formative years before the war whilst recalling the drowning of young artist Joe Lynch in 1927.

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I Dips Me Lid to the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Poem written by CJ Dennis in 1932 which took the form of a conversation between Arthur Phillip and Dennis's earlier character, the Sentimental Bloke. It was commissioned and published by Berger's Paints to promote the use of 60,000 gallons of Berger's Paints on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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My Country

An iconic and patriotic poem about Australia. The poem was first published in The Spectator in London under the title Core of My Heart. It is the second stanza which begins 'I Love a sunburnt country/ A land of sweeping plains,/ Of ragged mountain ranges,/ Of droughts and flooding rains' that is best known.

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The Aboriginal Mother

Poem by Mrs EH Dunlop set to music by Isaac Nathan

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When It Comes

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Dorothea Mackellar's first published poem, written when she was 15 and said to have been inspired by the death of her brother, Keith Kinnaird Mackellar, in 1900. Published in July 1903 in the American 'Harper's Monthly Magazine'.