Australian Great War Poetry

• Poet Name

  • Birth/Death - Origin
    • Poetry​ (Book, Poem)

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​Australian born and living in the Australia

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1. George Essex Evans

   1. (1863-1909) - ​Regents Park, London, England

      1. Ode for Commonwealth Day: 1st January, 1901 (1901)

2. Harry 'Breaker' Morant

   1. (1864-1902)​ - Bridgwater in Somerset, England: Service Record

      1. While yet we May (1893)

      2. When the Light is as Darkness (1892)

      3. At the River Crossing (1898)

3. Henry Lawson

   1. (1867-1922) - Australia

      1. The Star of Australasia (1895)

4. John Bernard O'Hara

   1. (1862–1927)​ - Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, Australia

      1. Australia's Call to Arms (1904)

5. William Forster

   1. (1818-1882) - ​ Madras, India

      1. Six Sonnets on the Crimean War (1884)

6. William Wentworth

   1. (1790-1872) - Australia

      1. Australasia (1823)

7. Christopher John Brennan

   1. (1870-1932) - ​Australia

      1. The Burden of Tyre (1900-01)

         1. They hunger? Give them men to slay

         2. Ere quite the westward shadow fade

8. Mary Gilmore

   1. (1865-1962) - ​Australia

      1. The Dream-Mother Came to Me (1888)

      2. The End of Joyousness (1892)

      3. The Men of New Australia (1893)

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