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Bernard O'Dowd
8 quotes
“Are you for Light, and trimmed, with oil in place, Or but a Will o’ Wisp on marshy quest? A new demesne for Mammon to infest? Or lurks millennial ’neath your face?”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Australia", ll. 5–8, in A Southern Garland (Sydney, 1904), n.p.
“And our reward? In this wan land, In clientage of Greed, Despised, polluted, maimed and banned, To wander and—to breed.”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Proletaria", st. 23, in A Southern Garland (Sydney, 1904), n.p.
“They teach and live the Golden Rule Of Young Democracy:—‘That culture, joy and goodliness Be th’ equal right of all: That Greed no more shall those oppress Who by the wayside fall:‘That each shall share what all men sow: That colour, caste’s a lie: That man is God, however low— Is man, however high.’”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Young Democracy", sts. 22–4, in A Southern Garland (Sydney, 1904), n.p.
“Ah, Love, the earth is woe’s And sadly helpers needs: And, till its burden goes, Our work is—where it bleeds.”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love and Sacrifice", in The Silent Land and Other Verses (Melbourne, 1909), p. 44
“When, comrades, we thrill to the message of speaker in highway or hall, The voice of the poet is reaching the silenter poet in all: And again, as of old, when the flames are to leap up the turrets of Wrong, Shall the torch of the New Revolution be lit from the words of a Song!”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Poet", st. 6, in An Austral Garden of Verse (1913), p. 91
“This is a rune I ravelled in the still, Arrogant stare of an Australian cow.”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cow", ll. 1–2, in The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (1918), p. 133
“‘Be true, be brave, be merciful, be free!’”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: True America's Message", l. 3, in The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (1918), p. 134
“All that we love in olden lands and lore Was signal of her coming long ago! Bacon foresaw her, Campanella, More, And Plato’s eyes were with her star aglow!”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bush", in The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (1918), p. 136