Early Adieux (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Adieu to kindred hearts and home, To pleasure, joy, and mirth,A fitter foot than mine to roam Could scarcely tread ...
Adieu to kindred hearts and home, To pleasure, joy, and mirth,A fitter foot than mine to roam Could scarcely tread ...
OH! treasured thus by passion's slave, Dear relic of the bygone year; Say, what remains of her who gave? The ...
THE spring will come again, dear friends, The swallow o'er the sea; The bud will hang upon the bough, The ...
(HORACE'S ODES, III, I)I hate the common, vulgar herd! Away they scamper when I "booh" 'em!But pretty girls and nice ...
We severed in Autumn early,Ere the earth was torn by the plough;The wheat and the oats and the barleyAre ripe ...
A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like ...
The pathway to my heart by fewIs sought, to few that pathway known,So deep a thicket round it sown,With grass ...
I love thee, as I love the calm Of sweet, star-lighted hours!I love thee, as I love the balm Of ...
Is luaimnach mo chodal an nochd.Oh restless, to night, are my slumbers;Life yet I retain, but not gladness;My heart in ...
The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby streetComes stealing; comes creeping;The poppies they hang from her head to her feet,And each hath ...
Good. I have done. My heart weighs. I am sad.The outer day, void statue of lit blue,Is altogether outward, other, ...
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- Seeking for the Southern poets' land ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
We severed in Autumn early, Ere the earth was torn by the plough; The wheat and the oats and the ...
I AM now,--what joy to hear it!-- Of the old magician rid; And henceforth shall ev'ry spirit Do whate'er by ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
WRITTEN FOR HIS MOTHER Dame du ciel, regents terrienne, Emperiere des infemaux palus.... Lady of Heaven and earth, and therewithal ...
The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late bare earth, proud of ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
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