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Poems by Kenneth Slessor

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Country Towns

... Which always keeps the General Stores&hellip ...

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Advice To Psychologists

... YOU spies that pierce the mind with trenches, ...

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Five Bells

... Cry louder, beat the windows, bawl your name! But I hear nothing, nothing ...

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Mangroves

... .. And even my songs are stolen from some old lover ...

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North Country

... Their clench of blowing air But this gaunt country, filled with mills and saws, ...

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Sleep

... ng and the driving forth,Life with remorseless forceps beckoning –Pangs and betrayal of harsh birth ...

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South Country

... Bruised flesh of thunderstorms: Air arched, enormous, pounding the bony ridge, ...

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Thief of the Moon

... Thy charms have stolen the star-gold, quenched the moon- ...

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William Street

... You find this ugly, I find it lovely Ghosts' trousers, like the dangle of hung men, ...

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A Sunset

... Trees ringed with death, the creek with its bells clanking ...

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Pan at Lane Cove

... . . Blow, blow your flute, you stone boy, blow! ...

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An Inscription For Dog River

... OUR general was the greatest and bravest of generals ...

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Marco Polo

... . . And, tired of life's new-fashioned plan, ...

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Snowdrops

... From the smoke and the fume of the backyard room, ...

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Next Turn

... Now programmes wave, heads bend between— ...