Sources
Every line weatherline prints comes from one of these editions, word for word. Each author died before 1955, so every text is public domain in Australia (life plus 70). No accounts, no sign-in, no visitor-written words anywhere on this instrument — there is nothing to moderate and nothing stored.
Editions
Percy Bysshe Shelley (d. 1822) — The Cloud; Ode to the West Wind (1820)
William Wordsworth (d. 1850) — I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)
A. B. Paterson (d. 1941) — The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895)
Henry Lawson (d. 1922) — The Drover's Wife (in While the Billy Boils) (1892)
Alfred Tennyson (d. 1892) — In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850)
The line pool (25 lines)
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Be thou me, impetuous one!
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
And dances with the daffodils.
In the wind and the rain,
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
Beneath a sky of deepest blue where never cloud abides,
Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep
Is fresh and sweet from the summer showers.
Bush all round—bush with no horizon, for the country is flat.
The bush consists of stunted, rotten native apple trees.
Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
Calm is the morn without a sound,
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Long sleeps the summer in the seed;