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Lesbia Harford, nee; Keogh was born in 1891. She was the eldest of four children and was born with defective heart valves which restricted her mobility and caused her to tire easily, a continual problem that was to amplify with age.
Raised firstly within the middle classes and then with the family bankruptcy and the consequential departure of her father who ran off to the West Australian goldfields, the fact that her mother entered paid work to make sure her children had an education ascribed Harford with a view of society based around both class struggle and feminism.
Her writing of poetry began in her adolescence and continued her work upon entering Melbourne University ... more »
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Lesbia Harford Poems
A Lady And I Were Walking
A lady and I were walking
Where waters flow;
A lady and I were talking
Softly and slow.... more »
A Meaning Learnt
I'm not his wife. I am his paramour:
His wayside love, picked up in journeying:
Rose of the hedgerows; fragrant, till he fling... more »
Child Sun
Child Sun
Why will you play Peep Bo
Now in, now out
The workroom window so?... more »
A Bunch Of Lilac And A Storm Of Hail
A bunch of lilac and a storm of hail
On the same afternoon! Indeed I know
Here in the South it always happens so,... more »
Three Teachers
Sometimes I can see
When I teach
Half my children talk
Each to each.... more »
A Prayer To Saint Rosa
When I am so worn out I cannot sleep
And yet I know I have to work next day... more »
After Rain
Today
I'd like to be a nun
And go and say
My rosary beneath the trees out there.... more »
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Child Sun
Child Sun
Why will you play Peep Bo
Now in, now out
The workroom window so?
True 'tis
That there are children here;
But they've no time
To play Peep Bo, my dear.
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