The Gateway (poetry collection)

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AuthorJudith Wright
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1953
The Gateway
AuthorJudith Wright
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1953
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages63p
Preceded byWoman to Man 
Followed byThe Two Fires 

The Gateway (1953) is the third collection of poetry by Australian poet Judith Wright.[1]

The collection consists of 57 poems, some with their original publication in this book, and some of which were had been previously published in magazines such as The Age, Southerly, The Bulletin, and various Australian poetry collections.[2]

  • "Dark Gift"
  • "The Grave"
  • "The Fire"
  • "The Stone"
  • "The Cedars"
  • "Train Journey"
  • "Fairytale"
  • "Myth"
  • "The Play"
  • "The Journey"
  • "Eroded Hills"
  • "Old House"
  • "Remembered Drought"
  • "Flood Year"
  • "Old Man"
  • "Botanical Gardens"
  • "Song for a Drowning Sailor"
  • "Girl and Death"
  • "Two Songs of Mad Tom : I"
  • "Two Songs of Mad Tom : II"
  • "Birds"
  • "Lion"
  • "The Lory"
  • "The Orange-Tree"
  • "Sandy Swamp"
  • "Phaius Orchid"
  • "Rain at Night"
  • "Eden"
  • "Song for Winter"
  • "Sonnet for Christmas"
  • "The Pool and the Star"
  • "All Things Conspire"
  • "Our Love is So Natural"
  • "Song for Easter"
  • "The Flame-Tree"
  • "Song"
  • "Two Hundred Miles"
  • "Legend"
  • "Nursery Rhyme for a Seventh Son"
  • "The Cicadas"
  • "Ishtar"
  • "The Promised One"
  • "A Song to Sing You"
  • "Waiting Ward"
  • "The Watcher"
  • "Full Moon Rhyme"
  • "To a Child"
  • "Two Songs for the World's End : I"
  • "Two Songs for the World's End : II"
  • "Drought"
  • "Unknown Water"
  • "Walker in Darkness"
  • "The Ancestors"
  • "The Forest Path"
  • "The Lost Man"
  • "The Traveller and the Angel"
  • "The Gateway"

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