Cooranbean (Henry Kendall Poems)
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
(From a Persian Carpet)Ash and strewments, the first moth-wings, paleArdour of brief evenings, on the fecund wind;Or all a wing, ...
WILD and wet, and windy wet falls the night on Hamilton, Hamilton that seaward looks unto the setting sun, Lady ...
WOULD I were the lake, so blue and calm,And thou, fair maiden, with reluctant pride,Wouldst see thy picture, delicate and ...
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,Sphere-born harmonious Sisters, Voice and Verse,Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employDead ...
"Look up," she said; and all the heavens blazedWith countless myriads of quiet stars,Whereon a moment silently he gazed,And drank ...
THE prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,If Thou the spirit give by which I pray:My unassisted heart is ...
With fright in their eyesthe soldiers of salvation beheldfrom the helmeted observatory tower: the heavenly harps;the swaying, titanic nebulaeand their ...
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
The enchanted island rose before me, drawnMore beautiful than words of mine may reach;It lay magnificent in a magic dawn,And ...
Far reaching down's a solid sea sunk everlastingly to rest, And yet whose billows seem to be for ever heaving ...
I made an ascent of the Eiger Last year, which has ne'er been surpassed; 'Twas dangerous, long, and laborious, ...
THE infinite garden of the sea is HisTo play in. Gravely smiling He resignsTo man his choice - this rugged ...
THE day is dark and the nightTo him that would search their heart;No lips of cloud that will partNor morning ...
You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced, Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea, Gulping salt-water everlastingly, Cold-blooded, though with red your blood be ...
I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar From rail-track and from highway, and I heard In field and farmstead many ...
Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No; I may ...
We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, ...
My first I wed when just sixteen And he was sixty-five. He treated me like any queen The years he ...
A MAN saw the whole world as a grinning skull and cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all ...
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy, Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers, Wed your divine sounds, and mixt ...
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