Dorothea Mackellar’s poems

There is no single universally agreed “complete” public catalogue of every poem written by Dorothea Mackellar, because many works appeared across magazines, newspapers and multiple editions of her collections.

The following list is the most comprehensive consolidated list of her known published poems and major verse titles available from archives and collected editions:

  • My Country

  • Night on the Plains

  • Non Penso a Lei

  • Outlawry

  • Pilgrim Song

  • Possession

  • Rain-Music

  • Reminder

  • Riding Rhyme

  • Romance

  • Seagull

  • September

  • Settlers

  • Sorrow

  • Spirit of the Bush Fire

  • Spring on the Plains

  • Sumer Is Icumen In

  • Sunset

  • Swallows

  • Sydney

  • The Bride

  • The Camp

  • The Closed Door

  • The Colours of Light

  • The Coorong Sandhills

  • The Dreamer

  • The Explorer

  • The Gardener

  • The Grey Lake

  • The Last Sea-Fight

  • The Lay of the Motor-Car

  • The Little Wave

  • The Moon and the Morning

  • The Noonday Silence

  • The Open Sea

  • The Pharisee

  • The Road to Ronda

  • The Santa Maria

  • The Sea-Breeze

  • The Storm

  • The Waiting Life

  • The Waterfall

  • The Whispering Bush

  • To the Dawning

  • When it comes

Her literary output includes four volumes of poetry:

  • The Closed Door (1911);

  • The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914);

  • Dreamharbour (1923); and

  • Fancy Dress (1926).

She also wrote novels, though Fitzgerald tells us that they were only written ‘for fun’

  • Outlaw’s Luck (1913),

In collaboration with Ruth Bedford

  • The Little Blue Devil (1912) and

  • Two’s Company (1914).