The Sydney International Exhibition (Henry Kendall Poems)
Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth setA shining foot on hills of wind and wet-Far haughty hills beyond the fountains ...
Henry Kendall Poems on Sons (27 Poems)
Euterpe: A Cantanta (Henry Kendall Poems)
Argument.Hail to thee, Sound!-The power of Euterpe in all the scenes of life-in religion; in works of charity; in soothing ...
The Voyage of Telegonus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
The Glen of Arrawatta (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gustsAre beating round the windows in the cold,With sullen sobs of rain, ...
King Saul at Gilboa (Henry Kendall Poems)
With noise of battle and the dust of fray,Half hid in fog, the gloomy mountain lay;But Succoth's watchers, from their ...
To the Spirit of Music (Henry Kendall Poems)
IThe cool grass blowing in a breeze Of April valleys sooms and sways;On slopes that dip to quiet seas Through far, faint ...
Manasseh (Henry Kendall Poems)
Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the sonOf him who, favoured of Jehovah, sawAt midnight, when the skies were flushed with ...
John Bede Polding (Henry Kendall Poems)
With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head, A son of sorrow kneels by fanes you knew;But cannot say the words that ...
In Memoriam: Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
The grand, authentic songs that rollAcross grey widths of wild-faced sea,The lordly anthems of the Pole,Are loud upon the lea.Yea, ...
Bill the Bullock-Driv (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, Who sway the wide world with their willAnd shake the great globe ...
Hunted Down (Henry Kendall Poems)
Two years had the tiger, whose shape was that of a sinister man,Been out since the night of escape — ...
On the Paroo (Henry Kendall Poems)
AS WHEN the strong stream of a wintering seaRolls round our coast, with bodeful breaks of storm,And swift salt rain, ...
Narrara Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms,Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms-From the home ...
Leichhardt (Henry Kendall Poems)
LORDLY harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep,Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the ...
Pytheas (Henry Kendall Poems)
Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea-Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven ...
Our Jack (Henry Kendall Poems)
Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night,Twelve years ago, the Spirit of the StormSobbed round our camp. A ...
The Melbourne International Exhibition (Henry Kendall Poems)
IBrothers from far-away lands, Sons of the fathers of fame,Here are our hearts and our hands- This is our song of acclaim.Lords ...
Sydney Exhibition Cantata (Henry Kendall Poems)
Songs of morning, with your breathSing the darkness now to death;Radiant river, beaming bay,Fair as Summer, shine to-day;Flying torrent, falling ...
Rizpah (Henry Kendall Poems)
SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,To Jesse's mighty son: "My Lord, O King,I, halting hard by Gibeon's ...
In Memory of John Fairfax (Henry Kendall Poems)
Because this man fulfilled his days,Like one who walks with steadfast gazeAverted from forbidden ways With lures of fair, false flowerage ...
In Memoriam: Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
SHALL he, on whom the fair lord, Delphicus, Turned gracious eyes and countenance of shine,Be left to lie without a wreath ...
Doubting (Henry Kendall Poems)
A Brother wandered forth with me, Beside a barren beach:He harped on things beyond the sea, And out of reach.He hinted once ...
Daphne (Henry Kendall Poems)
Daphne! Ladon's daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light,Take thy thoughts of fairest texture, weave them into words of white ...
Galatea (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SILVER slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses,And fiery cones, and sultry spurs, and swarthy pits ...
Australia Vindex (Henry Kendall Poems)
Who cometh from fields of the south With raiment of weeping and woe,And a cry of the heart in her mouth, And ...
William Bede Dalley (Henry Kendall Poems)
That love of letters which is as the light Of deathless verse, intense, ineffable,Hath made this scholar's nature like the white, Pure ...
The Ballad of Tanna (Henry Kendall Poems)
She knelt by the dead, in her passionate grief,Beneath a weird forest of Tanna;She kissed the stern brow of her ...