About Judith Wright
1915-2000/Australian After graduating from the Univ. of Sydney, Judith Arundell Wright worked variously as a clerk, secretary, and statistician. She is regarded as one of the most important Australian writers of the 20th cent. Her lyric poetry is marked by sensitivity of int
Selected Quotes
Poetry & Stories
Train Journey
Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,out of the confused hammering dark of the train
Bora Ring
The song is gone; the danceis secret with the dancers in the earth,
Drought Year
That time of drought the embered airburned to the roots of timber and grass.
Trapped Dingo
So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with redyour sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear,
Egrets
Once as I travelled through a quiet evening,I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still.
About Judith Wright
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Who is Judith Wright?
1915-2000/Australian After graduating from the Univ. of Sydney, Judith Arundell Wright worked variously as a clerk, secretary, and statistician.
Where can I read Judith Wright's poetry?
Kavishala has 12 poems and stories by Judith Wright, free to read on this page, along with selected quotes you can share.
Poems & Stories by Judith Wright
Train Journey
Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,out of the confused hammering dark of the train
Bora Ring
The song is gone; the danceis secret with the dancers in the earth,
Drought Year
That time of drought the embered airburned to the roots of timber and grass.
Trapped Dingo
So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with redyour sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear,
Egrets
Once as I travelled through a quiet evening,I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still.
Woman To Man
The eyeless labourer in the night,the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,
Bullocky
Beside his heavy-shouldered teamthirsty with drought and chilled with rain,
Blue Arab
The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hilllike a glancing breaker, like a storm rearing in the sky,
Failure of Communion
What is the space between,enclosing us in one
To a Child
When I was a child I sawa burning bird in a tree.
All things conspire
All things conspire to hold me from you–even my love,
Turning Fifty
Having known war and peaceand loss and finding,
Selected Quotes by Judith Wright (चुनिंदा उद्धरण)
Beside his heavy-shouldered teamthirsty with drought and chilled with rain,
Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,out of the confused hammering dark of the train
That time of drought the embered airburned to the roots of timber and grass.
So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with redyour sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear,
Having known war and peaceand loss and finding,
All things conspire to hold me from you–even my love,
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