The Atlas (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
I. The King of CuckoozTHE King of Cuckooz ContreyHangs peaked above ArgierWith Janzaries and MarabuttsTo bid a sailor fear-With lantern-eyed ...
Kenneth Slessor Poems on Silver (6 Poems)
Winter Dawn (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
AT five I wake, rise, rub on the smoking paneA port to see-water breathing in the air,Boughs broken. The sun ...
Undine (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IN Undine's mirror the cutpurse foundFive candlesticks by magic drowned,Like boughs of silver . . . and pale as death,Biting ...
Taoist (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
THOSE friends of Lao-Tzu, those wise old menDozing all day in lemon-silken robes,With tomes of beaten jade spread knee to ...
Rubens’ Innocents (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IF all those tumbling babes of heaven,Plump cherubim with blown cheeks,Could vault in these warm skies, or leavenOur starry silent ...
The Night Ride (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down;Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare,Pull up the ...