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Mary Gilmore
17 quotes
“It’s gettin’ bits o’ posies, ’N’ feelin’ mighty good; A-thrillin’ ’cause she loves you, An’ wond’rin’ why she should; [...] As if there’s nothin’ mattered, As if the world was good, As if the Lord was lookin’, An’ sort o’ understood.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sweathearts", sts, 1, 4, in (1910), p. 73
“It's us two when it's morning, And us two when it's night; And us two when it's troubled, And us two when it's bright;And us two don't want nothing To make life good and true, And lovin'-sweet, and happy, While us two's got us two.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Us Two", in Marri'd and Other Verses (1910), p. 23
“I have grown past hate and bitterness, I see the world as one; But though I can no longer hate, My son is still my son.All men at God's round table sit, And all men must be fed; But this loaf in my hand, This loaf is my son's bread.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nationality", anthologised in A Book of Australian and New Zealand Verse (1918), p. 86
“It was, it was a fairy man Who came to town today. "I'll make a cake for sixpence, If you will pay, will pay."I paid him with a sixpence, And with a penny, too; He made a cake of rainbows, And baked it in the dew. [...] He iced it with a moonbeam, He patterned it with play, And sprinkled it with star-dust From off the Milky Way.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fairy Man", sts. 1, 2, 5, in The School Magazine (1 March 1925), p. 22
“Youth troubles over eternity; age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Old Days, Old Ways: A Book of Recollections (1934); extract reprinted in The Penguin Book of Australian Autobiography (1987), pp. 35–6
“We are the sons of Australia, Of the men who fashioned the land, We are the sons of the women Who walked with them, hand in hand; And we swear by the dead who bore us, By the heroes who blazed the trail, No foe shall gather our harvest, Or sit on our stockyard rail.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", st. 4, in (Sydney, 29 June 1940), p. 5, with the author's note: "I'm too old to do many of the things I would like to do to win the war, but I can still write. Here is a song for the me…
“Never admit the pain, Bury it deep; Only the weak complain. Complaint is cheap.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Never Admit the Pain", st. 1, in An Anthology of Australian Verse, ed. George Mackaness (1946), p. 111
“I never knew how wide the dark, I never knew the depth of space, I never knew how frail a bark, How small is man within his place,Not till I heard the swans go by, Not till I marked their haunting cry, Not till, within the vague on high, I watched them pass across the sky. ...”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Swans at Night", in H. M. Green, Modern Australian Poetry, 2nd ed. (1952), p. 53
“I span and Eve span, A thread to bind the heart of man!”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eve-song", in H. M. Green, Modern Australian Poetry, 2nd ed. (1952), p. 127
“I have no thunder in my words, Thunder is much too high; But I can see as far as birds, And feel the wind go by.And I can follow through the grass The darling-breasted quail; For, though things great in splendour mass, I choose the lesser grail.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lesser Grail", sts. 1, 2, in (1954)
“I'm old Botany Bay; Stiff in the joints, Little to say.I am he Who paved the way, That you might walk At your ease to-day; [...] I split the rock; I felled the tree: The nation was — Because of me!"Old Taking the sun From day to day. ... Shame on the mouth That would deny The knotted hands That set us high!”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Old Botany Bay", quoted in E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature, 2nd ed. (1956), p. 194
“Never allow the thoughtless to delcare That we have no tradition here!”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Ringer", in T. Inglis Moore, A Book of Australia (1961), p. 280
“I shall go as my father went, A thousand plans in his mind, With something still held unspent When death lets fall the blind.I shall go as my mother went, The ink still wet on the line: I shall pay no rust as rent For the house that is mine.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tenancy", in A Book of Australian Verse, ed. Judith Wright (1962), p. 64
“Nurse no long grief, Lest the heart flower no more; Grief builds no barns; its plough Rusts at the door.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nurse No Long Grief", st. 3, in Mary Gilmore, ed. R. D. Fitzgerald (1963), p. 23
“Emptied of us the land, Ghostly our going, Fallen, like spears the hand Dropped in the throwing.We are the lost who went, Like the cranes, crying; Hunted, lonely, and spent, Broken and dying.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Waradgery Tribe", sts. 3, 4, anthologised in A Book of Australia, ed. (1961), p. 88
“I am not very patient, Yet patient I must be With him beside my pillow And the babe upon my knee. [...] Strange that I was given Thoughts that soar to heaven, Yet must I sit and keep Children in their sleep!”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Woman", quoted in H. M. Green, A History of Australian Literature (1966), p. 525
“Moorangoo, the dove, in her high place mourned, And Mulloka, the Water Spirit, turned In his shade as he heard her weep, Sad as the lone that cries in his sleep At the sound of the gun, Asking for pity where pity was none.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Lost Field", quoted in Clive Turnbull, A Concise History of Australia (1965), p. 69