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TheCardiganKid: "I waded out to the swan's nest - at night I heard them sing, I stood amazed at the Pelican, and crowned him for a king; I saw the black duck in the reeds, and the spoonbill on the sky, And in that poor country no pauper was I." -John Shaw Neilson

DavidBe01254937: I have lived in the Mallee for 24 years. I have loved poetry for about 50 years. John Shaw Neilson spent much of his poor life here, picking oranges in Merbein for example. Without education yet he wrote some of our finest poetry. Much of it about love and pain.

ArchivesFnBooks: More Australian poetry. If you're a poetry lover in Brisbane and are able to come in for a browse, it's worth the trip. The poetry section has never looked healthier and richer. The vast majority will not make it to the website.

dmit131: Poem of the Day 8 January 2022 - Beauty Imposes BY JOHN SHAW NEILSON Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of...

dmit131: Poem of the Day 13 December 2021 - The Meeting of Sighs BY JOHN SHAW NEILSON Your voice was the rugged old voice that I knew; I gave the best grip of my greeting to you. I knew not of your lips— you knew not of mine; Of travel and travail we...

DavidBe01254937: Australian Democrats history: Janine Haines was the first Democrat to occupy a seat in the senate (before Don Chipp even). The first female leader of the party, and possibly the most revered. She was also a scholar of the poetry of John Shaw Neilson ("She had the loving blood")

dmit131: Poem of the Day 1 September 2021 [First Day of Spring in Australia] Heart of Spring! BY JOHN SHAW NEILSON O Heart of Spring! Spirit of light and love and joyous day So soon to faint beneath the fiery Summer: Still smiles the Earth, eager for...

PaulHartyanszky: The Ways of the Wildflower - John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942)

unAustraliana: Will MF finally be assigned his official affect (i.e. John Forbes = 'awkward grace', John Shaw Neilson = 'shyness', Fay Zwicky = 'scorn') by Ivor Indyk?

tom_tanuki: We both found ourselves wishing that there were more thoughts and reflections from the dead carved into their memorial stones. At that moment I looked up at a sign pointing down a narrow old lane of graves. It said: 'JOHN SHAW NEILSON, EMINENT POET.'

tom_tanuki: John Shaw Neilson was a lifelong farmer and labourer, a largely uneducated man. He mostly taught himself a love of writing and poetry. He became a loved poet. Neilson, an old socialist, wrote a poem contrasting the arrogance of the wealthy...

MondayStory: - John Shaw Neilson wrote an INCREDIBLY racist poem about eastern curlews (don’t believe me? Check it out:

DLINEPRIDE: One of the most outstanding coaching staffs we have ever had at Line Camp! Back Row - Left to Right Troy Bagglio - Jesuit of NOLA Lance Rickner - John Curtis of NOLA Ryan Neilson - saints Bert Whigham - Tom Shaw…

KirkdaleBooks: I will be laminating a bit of John Shaw Neilson later this morning.

ruthblunden: “Quietly as tears fall On a wild sin, Softly as griefs call In a violin; Without hail or tempest, Blue sword or flame, Love came so lightly I knew not that he came.” from Love’s Coming, John Shaw Neilson

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