"The Orange Tree" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson.

A young girl is in conversation with the narrator of the poem and discuss the light that is "not of the sky" that lies within the orange grove they see.

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that the poem was "inspired by the beauty of the orange groves at Merbein near Mildura in the Murray River irrigration area".

It goes on to note that the poem "has sometimes been interpreted as youth's innate understanding of the natural beauty of life".

[2] A writer in The Cambridge History of Australian Literature described the poem as "symbolism with its sleeves rolled up".