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  1. www.litcharts.com › dorothea-mackellar › my-countryMy Country Poem Summary and Analysis - LitCharts

    "My Country" is a patriotic poem by Australian writer Dorothea Mackellar. Inspired by a conversation Mackellar with a friend after the two had visited England, the poem praises the vast, rugged splendor of the Australian wilderness over the gentler charms of the English countryside.

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  3. interestingliterature.com › 2017/04/10-of-the-best10 of the Best Poems about Childhood – Interesting Literature

    Apr 10, 2017 · Henry Vaughan (1622-95) was a Welsh Metaphysical Poet, although his name is not quite so familiar as, say, Andrew Marvell. His poem ‘The Retreat’ (sometimes the original spelling, ‘The Retreate’, is preserved) is about the loss of heavenly innocence experienced during childhood, and a desire to regain this lost state of ‘angel infancy’.

  4. the-past.com › feature › grave-secrets-health-underGrave secrets: the children of the Reformation – The Past

    Apr 30, 2015 · A child growing up in Henry VIII’s England would have experienced significant social disruption, and the changes in education, social conditions, poor relief, hospital provision, charitable infrastructure, social welfare and community spirit is likely to have affected every person, and indeed every child.

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › My_CountryMy Country - Wikipedia

    "My Country" is a poem written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 about her love of the Australian landscape. After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 [1] and re-wrote it several times before her return to Sydney.

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    Filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi's BAFTA award-winning real-life epic of boyhood and manhood - filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe: the feature documentary MY CHILDHOOD, MY COUNTRY - 20 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN.

  7. www.familyfriendpoems.com › poem › my-lost-youth-byMy Lost Youth By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Famous Narrative ...

    I enjoyed my childhood with my brothers, sisters, cousins, and friends, breathing in fresh air, bathing in fresh water streams and playing in newly harvested paddy fields. Now I am living in a new place, busy with my family and employment.

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  9. www.australianculture.org › core-of-my-heartCore of My Heart [“My Country”, poem by Dorothea Mackellar ...

    Jul 24, 2012 · The poem was published in some newspapers in 1908-1909 as “Core of My Heart — My Country”, and in 1910 as “My Country”. It was included in Dorothea Mackellar’s first book of poetry, The Closed Door and Other Verses (1911), under the title of “My Country”.