A Psalm Of Councel (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Though some good folks may take it ill,As trifling with parsonic frill,Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,In admonition ...
Though some good folks may take it ill,As trifling with parsonic frill,Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,In admonition ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use;At other times it cherishes abuse;'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tellWhich of the two ...
Good-bye; no tears nor cries Are fitting here, and long lament were vain. Only the last low words be softly said, And the ...
1640-1890.O river winding to the sea!We call the old time back to thee;From forest paths and water-waysThe century-woven veil we ...
A LEGEND OF 1516.WHAT time o'er gory lands and threatening seasFair fortune, wearied, fled the Genoese--What time from many a ...
Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.His ...
The carrier is a poor old man-See his gray locks, his wrinkles scan,Look at him and admire!His coat is thin, ...
There's an ogre abroad, boys, There's an ogre abroad, A three-handed monster That makes his abode In hamlet and city, In country and town, And revels ...
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never ...
Pent the wynds and closes narrow, Breathing pestilential air,Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow, Faint with famine, bow'd with care,—Gaunt Affliction's sons and daughters! Why ...
So, this is all, - the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war ...
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
To the memory of my fatherAt Thurgarton Church the sunburns the winter clouds overthe gaunt Danish stoneand thatched reeds that ...
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
I du believe in Freedom's cause, Ez fur away ez Payris is;I love to see her stick her claws In them infarnal ...
1868Don't cry, mother, don't grievethat I grew up as an outlaw,an outlaw, mother, a rebel,and abandoned you to your sorrow,mourning ...
NOR guard nor pomp was there, nor regal state:Unseen the stranger pass'd the palace gate,Through lonely courts and gloomy antique ...
When it is meet for rest to be our guideAnd for a while set every care aside,A memory of my ...
Let ev'ry one, that hears my voice,And understands my words, rejoice;Let ev'ry one applaud with meThe undivided Trinity.O turn, and ...
See Clinchie to the hen approach,A scoundrel screen'd in gilded coach.Near to Edina's lofty town,Upon a worthy Baron's ground,A poor ...
There was one Mrs. Cameron of 50 years of age and the fattest woman in all Inverness-shire who got up ...
THE ARGUMENT.God sends his angel to Tortosa down,Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights;And all the Lords and Princes of ...
I.Thou glorious painter of the thoughts that dwellIn the hot brain of genius, it was thineTo live in the delusion ...
And passing further they beheld many men pale and tortured,whose names are known in the fatherland.And they came to a ...
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
HAPPY Britannia, favour'd Isle! Fate on thee delights to smile; Even amid the woes of war, Thund'ring dreadful from afar; Let no discordant voice ...
NOVEMBER 3, 1864O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confessThis life that men so honor, love, and blessHas filled thine olden measure. Not ...
Sicut Patribus, sit Deus Nobis)The rocky nook with hilltops threeLooked eastward from the farms,And twice each day the flowing seaTook ...
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