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!
Dorothea Mackellar Quotes
Showing all text quotesBirth: | 1st July, 1885 |
Death: | 14th January, 1968 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Poet |
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Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem My Country is perhaps the best known Australian poem, 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." ...
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