The Wander-Light (Henry Lawson Poem)
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the ...
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the village with disturbance; ...
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and gast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his ...
You shall hear how Hiawatha Prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater ...
In those days the Evil Spirits, All the Manitos of mischief, Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom, And his love for Chibiabos, Jealous ...
In his lodge beside a river, Close beside a frozen river, Sat an old man, sad and lonely. White his ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
"As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, ...
X. Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, ...
Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! ...
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
1914-18 Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies ashore! For we've received orders to ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
From dewy dreams, my soul, arise, From love's deep slumber and from death, For lo! the treees are full of ...
When I meet the morning beam, Or lay me down at night to dream, I hear my bones within me ...
HER hands are cold; her face is white; No more her pulses come and go; Her eyes are shut to ...
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers ...
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering ...
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
The sleepy sound of a tea-time tide Slaps at the rocks the sun has dried, Too lazy, almost, to sink ...
Everything has its limit, including sorrow. A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon a leaf. One may ...
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
I, from a window where the Meuse is wide, Looked eastward out to the September night; The men that in ...
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