The Friends of Fallen Fortunes (Henry Lawson Poems)
The battlefield behind us, And night loomed on the track;The Friends of Fallen Fortunes Were riding at my back.Save those who lay ...
The battlefield behind us, And night loomed on the track;The Friends of Fallen Fortunes Were riding at my back.Save those who lay ...
Out from a narrow, crowded street,Sick'ning resort of shame and crime, Wearing upon her brow a curse,Out in the darkness, lost ...
All day he drowses by the sailWith dreams of her, and all night longThe broken waters are at songOf how ...
I.Corpses are cold in the tomb;Stones on the pavement are dumb;Abortions are dead in the womb,And their mothers look pale-like ...
THE SONG-BIRDS? are they flown away? The song-birds of the summer-time,That sang their souls into the day, And set the laughing days ...
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
The enchanted island rose before me, drawnMore beautiful than words of mine may reach;It lay magnificent in a magic dawn,And ...
THE first time Sir Ewaine ahunting went,The light spring leaves were on the tree,And the Ladie Ellenor sat in her ...
I.IT is not Love, this beautiful unrest,This tremor of longing that invades my breast:For Love is in his grave this ...
You have builded your ships in the sun-lands, And launched them with song and wine; They are ...
O might I load my arms with thee, Like that young lover of Romance Who loved and gained so gloriously ...
MADAM, you bade me act a part, A comedy of your devising-- Forbade me to consult my heart, ...
Now at our casement the wind is shrilling, Poignant and keen And all the great boughs of the pines between ...
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