Dorothea Mackellar's My Country

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One of Australia's best known and beloved poems.

“I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains

Of ragged mountain ranges

Of droughts and flooding rains”

These evocative words are from one of Australia’s most quoted poems. They are from the second verse of My country written by a homesick young Australian, Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) in about 1904.

The poem was first published in the London Spectator on 5 September 1908 titled as Core of My Heart. It reappeared several times in Australia before being included as 'My Country' in her first book, The Closed Door and Other Verses (Melbourne, 1911). This famous poem is believed to have been directly inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's experience of life on the land, and her love of the Allyn River district, NSW.

Core of my heart

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1908
Dorothea MacKellar
Call # SAFE / MLMSS 1959 / Box 16 / Item IV / C
Digital ID:
a1605003
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Dorothea Mackellar was born Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar at Point Piper in Sydney, NSW on 1 July 1885. Her parents were Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, a notable Sydney physician, and Marion Mackellar (nee Buckland). She had three brothers, Keith, Eric and Malcolm.

From 1898 to 1901, the Mackellars owned Torryburn station, near East Gresford in the Hunter Valley of NSW, during one of the region's driest times. While holidaying at the property the family witnessed the breaking of a drought. In later life, Dorothea Mackellar recalled how, after the rain, the grass began to shoot across the parched, cracked soil of the paddocks and, as she watched from the verandah, the land to the horizon turned green before her eyes.

Dorothea Mackellar's iconic verse is now regarded by many Australians as the universal statement of our nation's connection to the land.

Poem: My Country

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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665001
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665002
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665003
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665004
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1915
Dorothea MacKellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665005
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665006
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665007
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665008
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665009
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1915
Dorothea Mackellar and Jessie Jewhurst Hilder
Call # A 3025
Digital ID:
a665010
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Jessie Hilder, artist, first exhibited at the Society of Artists, Sydney, in 1907 where his watercolours were highly praised. He became a full-time professional artist in 1909 but died from tuberculosis in 1916. (Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9).

Reference - Australian Dictionary of Biography