The Ballad of the Black-Sheep (Henry Lawson Poems)
A black-sheep, from England, who worked on the run -Riding where the stockmen ride -He sat by the hut when ...
A black-sheep, from England, who worked on the run -Riding where the stockmen ride -He sat by the hut when ...
Southerly, mercantile, fatheredby unlikely giants, bawling fit horrorsat any addled Dutchman scoutingsanguine empire, this coast stipulatedbones, ground them in shoals, teeming ...
Savior of the nations, come;Virgin's Son, here make Thy home!Marvel now, O heaven and earth,That the Lord chose such a ...
My motherForesaw deathsAnd walked amongChrysanthemums,Winecolored,Withe red rose,The earthy blossoms.My very breathDisownedIn nights of study,And page by pageI came on spring.The ...
ITHE white snow veils the earth's brown face, Strong frost has bound the veil in place-- Under the wide, clear, ...
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,Are they who point our pathway and sustain.They rarely meet; one soars, one ...
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
I.Mary, to thee the heart was givenFor infant hand to hold,And clasp thus, an eternal heaven,The great earth in its ...
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
AT that lost hour disowned of day and night, The after-birth of midnight, when life's face Turns to the wall ...
Smoking lately in my "Funny," as I'm wont, beneath the bank, Listening to Cam's rippling murmurs thro' the ...
The Temple in DarknessDarkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, ...
Shall one be sorrowful because of love, Which hath no earthly crown, Which lives and dies, unknown? Because ...
Our Lord is now rejected,And by the world disowned,By the many still neglected,And by the few enthroned,But soon He'll come ...
Thou long disowned, reviled, oppressed,Strange friend of human kind,Seeking through weary years a restWithin our hearts to find; —How late ...
Adam SmithWas disowned by all his kith,But he was backed through thick and thinBy all his kin.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
(ROOSEVELT) He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and ...
A kite flutters, On a high tension wire - Against a stark blue sky. Beggar and old mother huddle On ...
O you who lose the art of hope, Whose temples seem to shrine a lie, Whose sidewalks are but stones ...
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