The Dictator (C J Dennis Poems)
Avaunt! What news is this I hear Of portent grim and sinister?Is he, whose words insult mine ear, A mere, ...
Avaunt! What news is this I hear Of portent grim and sinister?Is he, whose words insult mine ear, A mere, ...
Thou dost to rich attire a grace,To let it deck itself with thee,And teachest pomp strange cunning waysTo be thought ...
Come all Australia's sons to me — A hero has been slainAnd cowardly butchered in his sleep ...
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica-- Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause; Yea, and in ...
It is not seemly to be famous:Celebrity does not exalt;There is no need to hoard your writingsAnd to preserve them ...
And every year a world my will did deem, Till lo! at last, to Court now am I come, A ...
1914-18 The Babe was laid in the Manger Between the gentle kine -- All safe from cold and danger -- ...
She was a woman peerless in her station, With household virtues wedded to her name; Spotless in linen, grass-bleached in ...
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Thou dost to rich attire a grace, To let it deck itself with thee, And teachest pomp strange cunning ways ...
Here Stranger rest thee! from the neighbouring towers Of Oxford, haply thou hast forced thy bark Up this strong stream, ...
Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
A Pastorall Elegie vpon the death of the most Noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. Dedicated To the most ...
AH whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But ...
My glass shall not persuade me I am old So long as youth and thou are of one date; But ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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