Mackellar

British  

/ məˈkɛlə /

noun

1. Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote "My Country", Australia's best known poem

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Example Sentences

As Sydney poet Dorothea Mackellar famously wrote in her 1908 poem “My Country,” ours is a sunburnt country “of droughts and flooding rains.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2020

He was widely seen as following the Australian "bush poet" tradition of Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar.

From BBC • May 3, 2019

“I look forward to continuing to serve the people of Mackellar as their local member, the job that has always been my first responsibly despite other positions I have held within the parliament.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2015

Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed "a sunburnt country," suffered a torturous drought from the late 1990s through 2012.

From US News • May 25, 2015

This is a very good servant to me, Sir William, this man Mackellar; he buried him with his own hands—he and my father—by the light of two siller candlesticks.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis