My Country by Dorothea Mackeller - Poetry.com
2011年5月13日 · Her poem My Country is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."
I love a sunburnt country: How that famous poem is as relevant …
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror –
Core of My Heart [“My Country”, poem by Dorothea Mackellar, …
2012年7月24日 · I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me! The front cover of Dorothea Mackellar’s book, The Closed Door and Other Verses, 1911 The stark white ring-barked forests
My Country Poem Summary and Analysis - LitCharts
The best My Country study guide on the planet. The fastest way to understand the poem's meaning, themes, form, rhyme scheme, meter, and poetic devices.
I Love a sunburnt country poem | Young Writers Awards
Dorothea’s enduring legacy is her poem which help its readers envision Australia as sunburnt country which we love. Many Australian’s are familiar with this poem but not in its entirety so we’ve produced the full version here. My Country is often also known as “I love a sunburnt country’ after the most famous section of the piece.
My Country - Dorothea Mackellar
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me! A stark white ring-barked forest All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon. Green tangle ...
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar - All Poetry
This cherished timeless poem speaks to the core of the Australian heart with its line "I love a sunburnt country". The picture is a page from MacKellar's own notebook to dispel the rugged / ragged confusion.
Dorothea Mackellar's My Country - State Library of New South …
“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains. Of ragged mountain ranges. Of droughts and flooding rains” These evocative words are from one of Australia’s most quoted poems. They are from the second verse of My country written by a homesick young Australian, Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) in about 1904.
Great saffron sunset clouds, and larkspur mountains, And fenceless miles of plain, And hillsides golden-green in that unearthly Clear shining after rain; And nights of blue and pearl, and long smooth beaches, Yellow as sunburnt wheat, Edged with a line of foam that creams and hisses, Enticing weary feet. And emeralds, and sunset-hearted opals,
Dorothea McKellar in Australia | Literary Traveler
2008年10月20日 · “I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.” Do I? I live in Australia and there is no better country in which to reside, with its freedoms, its wealth, opportunities and safety.