The Bonny Port of Sydney
The Bonny Port of Sydney - fact Summary
Nostalgic Sydney Harbour Memory
Lawson's poem praises Sydney Harbour from a shoreward vantage, celebrating its sunny beauty and "harbour lights" as unmatched by other ports. The speaker contrasts this luminous, warm seaside scene with the speaker's impending voyage to gloomy London, where winter and lack of stars make return unlikely. The poem registers personal attachment and nostalgia, reflecting Lawson's lived experience of Sydney and a mournful but tender longing for the city from which he departs.
Read Complete AnalysesThe lovely Port of Sydney Lies laughing to the sky, The bonny Port of Sydney, Where the ships of nations lie. You shall never see such beauty, Though you sail the wide world o’er, As the sunny Port of Sydney, As we see it from the Shore. The shades of night are falling On many ports of call, But the harbour lights of Sydney Are the grandest of them all; Such a city set in jewels Has ne’er been seen before As the harbour lights of Sydney As we see them from the Shore. I must sail for gloomy London, Where there are no harbour lights, Where no sun is seen in winter, And there are no starry nights; And the bonny port of Sydney I may never see it more, But I’ll always dream about it As we view it from North Shore.
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