(21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963 / Kelso, Scotland)

poet William Henry Ogilvie

Poems of William Henry Ogilvie

1. A Gallop from the Train 4/7/2010
2. A Little Bit of Garden 4/7/2010
3. As I wandered home 4/7/2010
4. As They Come 4/7/2010
5. Biddy, be Kind! 4/7/2010
6. Canadians 4/7/2010
7. Colour 4/7/2010
8. Comrades 0' Mine 4/7/2010
9. Daffodils 4/7/2010
10. Drought 1/1/2004
11. English Grass 4/7/2010
12. Foxhound Puppies 4/7/2010
13. From the Gulf 1/1/2004
14. Gone Away 4/7/2010
15. Hands! 4/7/2010
16. Harry Morant 4/7/2010
17. His Epitaph 4/7/2010
18. His Gippsland Girl 1/1/2004
19. Hounds going home in the Dark 4/7/2010
20. Hounds! 4/7/2010

Drought

My road is fenced with the bleached, white bones
And strewn with the blind, white sand,
Beside me a suffering, dumb world moans
On the breast of a lonely land.
On the rim of the world the lightnings play,
The heat-waves quiver and dance,
And the breath of the wind is a sword to slay
And the sunbeams each a lance.

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