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John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. he died when he was 70 years old.

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List of poems by John Shaw Neilson 26 total

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The Break of Day
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You and Yellow Air
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To A Blue Flower
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The Smoker Parrot
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The Poor, Poor Country
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The Poor Can Feed the Birds
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The Orange Tree
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The Meeting of Sighs
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The Loving Tree
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The Land where I was Born
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The Green Singer
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The Gentle Water Bird (for Mary Gilmore)
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The Crane is My Neighbour
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A Protest and a Protest
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Tell Summer That I Died
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Song for a Singer
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Song be Delicate
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Schoolgirls Hastening
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Ownerless
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Old Granny Sullivan
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O Heart of Spring
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Native Companions Dancing
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May
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Love's Coming
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In the Dim Counties
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Beauty Imposes
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