The Atlas (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
I. The King of CuckoozTHE King of Cuckooz ContreyHangs peaked above ArgierWith Janzaries and MarabuttsTo bid a sailor fear-With lantern-eyed ...
I. The King of CuckoozTHE King of Cuckooz ContreyHangs peaked above ArgierWith Janzaries and MarabuttsTo bid a sailor fear-With lantern-eyed ...
Can we e'er forget our boyhood, And the days we spent at school, With the jolly youths and maidens Who with pencil for ...
These dark waving curls, they are thine, thou dear one, so beautiful, so gay!Black narcissuses are those eyes of thine, ...
Notwithstanding thou art unto me a sovereign, and I a beggar;Still turn not from me thy face, for I am ...
Either let it be a sovereign upon his throne,Or let it be the poor darwesh of a monastery!Many there are, ...
I sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage, Of stratagems wrought in the former age, Contagious vice, and in conclusion, ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
It was the morning season of the year; It was the morning era of the land;The watercourses rang full loud ...
In sixteen hundred and forty-one,The regular yearly galleon,Laden with odorous gums and spice,India cottons and India rice,And the richest silks ...
IAnother life from Life's Fountain,Hath flowed through thy life into being,And entered a deathless existence.The sun may go down in ...
A word out of season Of vapid unreasonMay seem mere political twaddle at best; But this thing needs abatement ...
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