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| the wide brown land for me poem: My Country Dorothea Mackellar, 2015 A broadside consisting of the words of Dorothea Mackellar's poem written in a calligraphic hand above a redish-toned desert scene showing two lizards and clumps of grass on a rocky outcrop. The image is digitally printed but has the title, punctuation amd the eyes of the lizards embellished with hand applied gold leaf. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: I Love a Sunburnt Country Dorothea Mackellar, 1995-01-01 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1900 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: My Country, Africa Andrée Blouin, 2025-01-07 Andre Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana. In this autobiography, Blouin retraces her remarkable journey as an African revolutionary. Born in French Equatorial Africa and abandoned at the age of three, she endured years of neglect and abuse in a colonial orphanage, which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen. She later became radicalized by the death of her two-year-old son, who was denied malaria medication by French officials because he was one-quarter African. In Guinea, where Blouin was active in Skou Tour's campaign for independence, she came into contact with leaders of the liberation movement in the Belgian Congo. Blouin witnessed the Congolese tragedy up close as an adviser to Patrice Lumumba, whose arrest and assassination she narrates in unforgettable detail. Blouin offers a sweeping survey of pan-African nationalism, capturing the intricacies of revolutionary diplomacy, comradeship, and betrayal. Alongside intimate portraits of the movement's leaders, Blouin provides insights into the often-overlooked contribution of African women in the struggle for independence. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Witch-Maid, & Other Verses Dorothea Mackellar, 2019-12-12 Dorothea Mackellar's 'The Witch-Maid, & Other Verses' is a captivating collection of poetry that delves into themes of folklore, nature, love, and longing. Mackellar's lyrical style and vivid imagery transport readers to landscapes both real and imagined, evoking a sense of nostalgia and wonder. The poems in this collection showcase Mackellar's deep connection to the Australian landscape, with references to its unique flora and fauna heightened by her poetic language and emotional depth. The blend of romanticism and realism in her verses makes 'The Witch-Maid' a quintessentially Australian work, admired for its evocative portrayal of the country's rugged beauty. As an influential figure in Australian literature, Mackellar's work continues to resonate with readers today, offering a glimpse into the rich tapestry of the nation's literary heritage. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Brown Girl, Brown Girl Leslé Honoré, 2024-12-03 Illustrations and rhyming text encourage brown girls to take courage from their predecessors and follow their dreams. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Vagabond's House Don Blanding, 1928 Works of a poet from Oklahoma who loved the life of the Hawaiian Islands. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The ABC Book of Australian Poetry Libby Hathorn, Cassandra Allen, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2010 Follow a river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day, and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. Age 10-14. 'I am the river, gently flowing, as I wind my way to the sea.' (Mary Duroux) Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. In this beautiful collection of poems for children, award-winning author and poet, Libby Hathorn, has brought together favourites such as those by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Dorothea Mackellar and C.J. Dennis, as well as more contemporary poems by Steven Herrick, Eva Johnson, Les A. Murray and others. Exquisite illustrations by Cassandra Allan make this a collection to treasure. Age 10-14. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Songs of a Campaign Leon Gellert, 1918 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Southern Road Sterling A. Brown, 1932 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Kéramos Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1878 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold) Karen Hesse, 2012-09-01 Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . .A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning, 1912 The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Shield of Achilles W. H. Auden, 2024-05-07 Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Tradition Jericho Brown, 2019-06-18 WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award 100 Notable Books of the Year, The New York Times Book Review One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021 By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes.—Craig Morgan Teicher, “'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Preview” for NPR “A relentless dismantling of identity, a difficult jewel of a poem.“—Rita Dove, in her introduction to Jericho Brown’s “Dark” (featured in the New York Times Magazine in January 2019) “Winner of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Brown's hard-won lyricism finds fire (and idyll) in the intersection of politics and love for queer Black men.”—O, The Oprah Magazine Named a Lit Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” One of Buzzfeed’s “66 Books Coming in 2019 You’ll Want to Keep Your Eyes On” The Rumpus poetry pick for “What to Read When 2019 is Just Around the Corner” One of BookRiot’s “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections of 2019” Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Incarnadine Mary Szybist, 2013-02-05 The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from The Troubadours etc. In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Perfect Black Crystal Wilkinson, 2021-08-03 2022 NAACP Image Award Winner Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia. In Perfect Black, the acclaimed writer muses on such topics as motherhood, the politics of her Black body, lost fathers, mental illness, sexual abuse, and religion. It is a captivating conversation about life, love, loss, and pain, interwoven with striking illustrations by her long-time partner, Ronald W. Davis. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: In the Land of Words Eloise Greenfield, 2003-12-23 The words can come from a memory, or a dream, or something I see or hear or wonder about or imagine. . . . Maybe there's a place where words live, where our minds and hearts can go and find them when we want to write or read. I like to imagine that there is such a place. I call it The Land of Words. In this collection of twenty-one poems, National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Award winner Eloise Greenfield journeys to a place where words, creativity, and imagination abound. Featuring the poems In the Land of Words, Books, and Poem, as well as favorites such as Nathaniel's Rap and Way Down in the Music, this tribute to the written word invites readers to look within themselves and discover what inspires them. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Lyndon B. Johnson United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson), 1965 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese William Jennings, 1891 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: A Shropshire Lad Alfred Edward Housman, 1903 A collection of sixty-three short poems by the English poet showing a young lad's reactions to love, beauty, friendship, and death as he approaches manhood. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Fanny Says Nickole Brown, 2015 A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin, 1987-03-15 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Courtship of Miles Standish Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1896 |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Republic of Motherhood Liz Berry, 2020-03-17 *'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem* ‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’ In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Meow Mark Baumer, 2019-04 Poetry. One way to introduce this posthumously released book by the beautiful enigma of Mark Baumer is to say something about how, as he lived, Mark was the writer most possessed of freedom--pure, uncompromised creative freedom--that I've probably ever read. By this I mean that the body of work he was able to produce in his heartbreakingly short time on our planet operated rigorously and overflowingly in a matter of vision unbound by convention, expectation, structure, theme, much less awards, credits, recognition; I mean how in everything he ever wrote, whether about vegetables or capitalism, office work or walking barefoot across America, from one word to another absolutely anything might happen, any inanimate entity might find a voice, through any word; to the extent that, from the outside, it seems the work of a child genius, where by child I mean the kind so unaffected by the arbitrary canonical rules that, like Barthelme or Kharms, it seems to describe a version of the world so innately absurd, so blissfully unbound, that many more restricted readers might receive it, one might say, only as might someone looking out through the security grid of our luxury panopticon at a far off and spectacular horizon slowly receding across the wide and darkened land, hearing an old friend's voice somewhere way out there in the receding gradient, saying it's okay, you will wake up soon, I am here.--Blake Butler |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Meanderings in the Bush Richard MacMillen, Barbara MacMillen, 2009-07-15 The Channel Country is of special interest because its extreme aridity is disrupted unpredictably by summer monsoonal rains, causing massive flooding, and is followed by prodigious growth of plants and reproduction of animals, before returning to daunting conditions of drought. Yet, it is a region teeming with life, both plant and animal, possessing unusual capacities for existing there. It is also a region favoured by hardy pastoralists and their livestock, who have learned to coexist with this harsh climate. In Meanderings in the Bush, the authors describe their many adventures and misadventures in the region, with its climate, its animals and its human inhabitants. They also discuss results of their research which reveals some of the secrets for survival of many of the native animals, including marsupials, rodents, birds and the remarkable desert crab. These studies are cast in the light of both the prehistoric and historic records of the Lake Eyre Basin, including the probable impacts of changing and/or stable climates, Aboriginal occupation, later European pastoral development and the influences of introduced exotic mammals. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Green and Gold Malaria Rupert McCall, 2011-08-31 Hailed as a modern-day Banjo Paterson, Rupert McCall has captured the imagination and stirred the souls of people all over Australia with his poetry. He writes with humour and compassion about the things that matter to us most. In this triumphant new volume of his work we find Rupert travelling abroad, yet homesick and pining for the simple pleasures of his native land. Whether it's having a bet on the races, listening to the music of John Williamson or watching Shane Warne in action, Rupert speaks from the heart about Australia and our heroes. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Tram to Bondi Beach Libby Hathorn, 1992 Keiran is the paperboy on the tram to Bondi Beach. Highly commended, CBC Picture Book of the Year Award, 1982. Prebound. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Where Go the Boats? Robert Louis Stevenson, 2020-02-25 Set sail in this accordion-style edition of Stevenson's classic children's verse. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Dorothea Mackellar's My Country Dorothea Mackellar, 2008 Dorothea Mackellar's anthemic poem My County captured the heart of the Australian nation when it was first published in 1908, and the love affair has continued for a hundred years. To celebrate the poem's centenary, Peter Luck presents this superb photographic homage to Dorothea and her country, in all of its beguiling moods. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Her Sunburnt Country Deborah FitzGerald, 2023-08-30 The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been written about the poet’s extraordinary life. From her childhood and youth in Sydney’s Point Piper, to discovering her love for the Australian landscape on the family farm in Gunnedah, Dorothea engaged with the intellectual elite of Sydney and abroad as she embarked on a decades-long literary career that saw her linked to some of the leading lights of her day. A keen traveller, Dorothea ventured as far as Japan, Egypt and the Caribbean between longer stints in Europe. In the heart of literary London, she socialised with Joseph Conrad and Ezra Pound. At home, she counted among her friends Ether Turner, the famed war correspondent Charles Bean, and journalistic royalty in the form of the Fairfax family. Never before published letters and diaries reveal her unorthodox relationship with her best friend and collaborator Ruth Bedford. Battling against a masculine tradition of Australian bush poetry led by Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, Dorothea Mackellar boldly carved out a place for herself, leaving an indelible mark on the Australian imagination. Now, for the first time, the poet's unconventional life story is told – a hidden gem of Australian history, and a tale of one woman’s extraordinary passion for her poetry, her family and her country. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Native to the Nation Allaine Cerwonka, 2004 In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those who stay in place? How do people who remain in their place of origin or ancestral homeland rearticulate a sense of connection, of belonging, when ownership of the territory they occupy is contested? Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of foreigners. As a multicultural, postcolonial nation whose claims to land until recently were premised on the notion of the continent as empty (terra nullius), Australia offers an especially rich lens for understanding the reterritorialization of the nation-state in an era of globalization. To this end, Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Police Station and the East Melbourne Garden Club, allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations and cultivations. Allaine Cerwonka is assistant professor of women's studies and political science at Georgia State University. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: A Family of Poems Caroline Kennedy, 2005-09-01 Caroline Kennedy has chosen a rich variety of Kennedy family favorite poems to include in this priceless collection. With thoughtful personal introductions written by Caroline herself, and beautiful new original artwork by award-winning artist, Jon J Muth, this collection is sure to become a family favorite for years to come. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: True to the Land Paul van Reyk, 2021-10-11 Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food production in Australia is subject to the constraints of climate, water, and soil, leading to centuries of unsustainable agricultural practices post-colonization. Australian food history is also the story of its xenophobia and the immigration policies pursued, which continue to undermine the image of Australia as a model multicultural society. This history of Australian food ends on a positive note, however, as Indigenous peoples take increasing control of how their food is interpreted and marketed. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, 2007 Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States United States. President, 1967 Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President, 1956-1992. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: The Highwayman Alfred Noyes, 2013-09-05 An enduringly popular poem in a beautifully illustrated edition for children. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: New Britannia Alan James, 2012-12-29 In 1788 Britain founded a tiny new colony half a world away. For the next two centuries millions of young men and women from all over the British Isles - but mostly from England - settled in Australia. They brought with them the best traditions of the mother country, believing that their manifest destiny was to create a new and better Britannia. Yet for the last forty years the cultural fire that these young pioneers carried with them from the British Isles hearth has been assailed from all sides. Whether Anglo-Australia eventually survives or succumbs, its fate may well be a microcosm of what awaits the rest of the British diaspora. |
| the wide brown land for me poem: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson Glenda Smith, Lisa Edwards, 2009 The Excel HSC English Area of Study Guide: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson is directly linked to the syllabus with dot points of the HSC English syllabus appearing in the margin of the book. You can write in the guide, so your study is focused and your notes are structured. |
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The meaning of WIDE is having great extent : vast. How to use wide in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Wide.
WIDE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
WIDE definition: 1. having a larger distance from one side to the other than is usual or expected, especially in…. Learn more.
Wide - definition of wide by The Free Dictionary
Something that is wide or broad measures a large distance from one side to the other. You can say that something such as a street or river is wide or broad.
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“granted him wide powers” synonyms: across-the-board , all-embracing , all-encompassing , all-inclusive , blanket , broad , encompassing , extensive , panoptic , sweeping
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Wide definition: Having great extent or range; including much or many.
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Jun 25, 2011 · Wide definition: having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad.. See examples of WIDE used in a sentence.
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Wider is used to describe something which relates to the most important or general parts of a situation, rather than to the smaller parts or to details. He emphasised the wider issue of …
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WIDE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
WIDE meaning: 1. having a larger distance from one side to the other than is usual or expected, especially in…. Learn more.
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