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About - Dorothea Mackellar
Dorothea Mackellar was a third generation Australian.
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History - Dorothea Mackellar
There is no evidence available that can clearly state whether Dorothea started writing the poem, ‘My Country’, in Australia or England. She began to sketch out the poem earlier than 1904, with the fin...
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National Figure - Dorothea Mackellar
DOROTHEA Mackellar became a national figure after she wrote My Country, six verses of superb description, which became Australia’s best-loved and most-quoted poem because it so well portrays Australia...
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Colour - Dorothea Mackellar
The lovely things that I have watched unthinking, Unknowing, day by day, That their soft dyes have steeped my soul in colour That will not pass away – Great saffron sunset clouds, and larkspur mountai...
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Poetry Archive - Dorothea Mackellar
Poetry Archive
Colour
Written in 1909, this poem was one of Dorothea’s personal favourites. It was first published in the volume of verse “The Closed Door”, in 1911. The poem was read at her funeral s...
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My Country - 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 sh...