Thomas Pringle Poems Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

I sat at noontide in my tent,And looked across the Desert dun,Beneath the cloudless firmamentFar gleaming in the sun,When from ...

Afar in the Desert I love to ride,With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:When the sorrows of life the ...

Mount -- mount for the hunting -- with musket and spear!Call our friends to the field -- for the Lion ...

The free-born Kosa still doth holdThe fields his fathers held of old;With club and spear, in jocund ranks,Still hunts the ...

From ocean's wave a Wanderer came,With visage tanned and dun:His Mother, when he told his name,Scarce knew her long-lost son;So ...

Wake! Amak(Thomas Pringle)

Hark! -- heard ye the signals of triumph afar?'Tis our Caffer Commando returning from war:The voice of their laughter comes ...

Let the proud White Man boast his flocks,And fields of foodful grain;My home is 'mid the mountain rocks,The Desert my ...

Fast by his wild resounding RiverThe listless Coran lingers ever;Still drives his heifers forth to feed,Soothed by the gorrah's humming ...

The Bushman sleeps within his black-browed den,In the lone wilderness. Around him lieHis wife and little ones unfearingly --For they ...

From deserts wild and many a pathless woodOf savage climes where I have wandered long,Whose hills and streams are yet ...

Lo! where he crouches by the cleugh's dark side,Eyeing the farmer's lowing herds afar;Impatient watching till the Evening StarLead forth ...

Thomas Pringle Poems (12 Poems)