Reflections of a Pious Convalescent single work   poetry   "I too was ill and, I like you, recovered."
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Reflections of a Pious Convalescent
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  • Epigraph: And now in age I bud again, / After so many deaths I live and write; / I once more smell the dew and rain, / And relish versing: O my onley light, / It cannot be / That I am he / On whom thy tempests fell all night. - "The Flower", George Herbert.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Overland no. 116 October 1989 Z591533 1989 periodical issue 1989 pg. 35
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Tobacco : A Valedictory and Other Poems John Bray , Canberra : National Library of Australia , 1990 Z80882 1990 selected work poetry Pamphlet Poets [Series] : Series 1 Canberra : National Library of Australia , 1990 pg. 8-9
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Seventy Seven John Bray , Adelaide : Wakefield Press , 1990 Z558918 1990 selected work poetry Adelaide : Wakefield Press , 1990 pg. 14
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Collected Poems 1962-1991 John Bray , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000 Z310687 2000 collected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000 pg. 231
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