[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919) and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).] The Dream is Deep Sing me the song that never dies, Of little Love blinded and bold, Blossoms unblemished and blue skies And the green going into gold. All the uproarious pipes we […]

[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919) and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).] For a Child Into your angel mouth The sport of Spring And the Summer’s honey Came rioting. Your eyes were as flowers, Fine gold your hair, Warm in my heart you sang Love […]

[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919) and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).] At the End of Spring Put down thy bonny head, This is the end: Thou wert a joyous love, Thou wert a pleasing friend: Soft-silken is the grass Where thy twinkling colours blend. […]

[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919) and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).] The Scent o’ the Lover I saw the mushrooms hoping In the cool June: It is the scent o’ the lover Sweetens the tune. May the good men mock me That I dare […]

[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919) and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).] The Song and the Bird He hath his Heaven got: For Love he shakes the tree: Happy he heedeth not The many gods that be. He telleth all his mad Manoeuvring to the […]