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)
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