The Song of Australia (Henry Lawson Poem)
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity - all states in one. Never has Custom ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed ...
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed ...
O thou, the wonder of all days! O paragon, and pearl of praise! O Virgin-martyr, ever blest Above the rest ...
I To-night, a first movement, a pulse, As if the rain in bogland gathered head To slip and flood: a ...
Pindaric Ode "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait! Tho' fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Silvia, let's from the Crowd retire; For, What to you and me (Who but each other do desire) Is all ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
At last, my old inveterate foe, No opposition shalt thou know. Since I by struggling, can obtain Nothing, but encrease ...
A man ambushed a stone. Caught it. Made it a prisoner. Put it in a dark room and stood guard ...
Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave; Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun; Nor thou nor I ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
Father, part of his double interest Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me, His jointure in the knotty Trinity ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
Take heed of loving me; At least remember I forbade it thee; Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
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