Airlie Beach #2

oil on canvas 30x20cm

Airlie Beach #1

oil on canvas 30x25cm

Lassitude

I LAID me down beside the sea,

Endless in blue monotony;

The clouds were anchored in the sky,

Sometimes a sail went idling by.

Upon the shingles on the beach

Gray linen was spread out to bleach,

And gently with a gentle swell

The languid ripples rose and fell.




Mathilde Blind

Bay of Martyrs, Port Campbell, Victoria

Oil on canvas 40x30cm

Yeppoon

oil on canvas 40x30cm

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

THE tide rises, the tide falls,

The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;

Along the sea-sands damp and brown

The traveller hastens toward the town

And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Darkness settles on the roofs and walls

But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;

The little waves, with their soft, white hands,

Efface the footprints in the sands

And the tide rises, the tide falls.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls

Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;

The day returns, but nevermore

Returns the traveller to the shore,

And the tide rises, the tide falls.




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow