Dorothea Mackellar

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, quoted below.

Quotes

 * I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges,  Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons,  I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror—  The wide brown land for me!
 * "Core of My Heart" (1908); "My Country" (1911)
 * The Spectator (5 September 1908), The Closed Door (1911), The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914)