Cui Bono (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles, Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf;Why should he labour to ...
Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles, Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf;Why should he labour to ...
Be-wigged and gowned, the Speaker frowned, And his frown was ill to see."Oddsfish!" he spake, "Do I mistake? Stands 'And' ...
On a background of pale goldI would trace with quaint design,Penciled fine,Brilliant-colored, Moorish scenes,Mosques and crescents, pages, queens,Line on line,That ...
I'm only a boy, but before me lie Life's paths untrod, and a sunny sky Bends o'er the paths, and ...
Beetling walls with ivy grown,Frowning heights of mossy stone;Turret, with its flaunting flagFlung from battlemented crag;Dungeon-keep and fortaliceLooking down a ...
Thou gray old cliff, like turret raised on high,With light-house mingling with the summer sky,How long in lonely grandeur hast ...
O the calling of the waves on the pebbled beach below, And the seagull sweeping o'er the waters grey!O ...
As one that stands upon the beetling sheer Of some dread precipice, when midmost night With whelming dark has hidden ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
BEETLING rock, with roar and smoke Break before my hammer-stroke! Deeper I must thrust and lower Till I hear the ...
ACT I. SC. I Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following. T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why do you ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, ...
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
THE LAMP of day, with-ill presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sank beneath the western wave; Th' inconstant blast howl'd thro' the ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
STILL anxious to secure your partial favour, And not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, A Prologue, Epilogue, or ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Chorus -- Bonnie Helen, will you go to Callander with me And gaze upon its beauties and romantic scenery Dear ...
By that Lake, whose gloomy shore Sky-lark never warbles o'er, Where the cliff hangs high and steep, Young Saint Kevin ...
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