The Australiad – (A poem for children.) (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.I see my country ruined by the wrongs that ...
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A FRIEND.On page of thine I cannot traceThe cold and heartless commonplace,A statue's fixed and ...
When you were a tadpole and I was a fishIn the Paleozoic time,And side by side on the ebbing tideWe ...
A Prize PoemThe star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and lightBurst on the nations that reposed in night,And chased the ...
AGAINST the wooded hills it stands,Ghost of a dead home, staring throughIts broken lights on wasted landsWhere old-time harvests grew.Unploughed, ...
HERE are the old desires that pass,The dreams of weary men, that die,The dreams that faint and fail, alas!And there ...
I purifyWith my clear rain the sombre sky;I wake the snowdrops from their sleepIn the earth's bosom brown and deep.I ...
All take these lips away; no more,No more such kisses give to me.My spirit faints for joy; I seeThrough mists ...
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
CAPTURE OF THE FIRE-FISH.Wainamoinen, the enchanter,The eternal wisdom-singer,Long reflected, well considered,How to weave the net of flax-yarn,Weave the fish-net of ...
Fair Mother Earth lay on her back last night, To gaze her fill on Autumn's sunset skies, When at a ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble doteEz to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note,Our old ...
So you knew Dalley that used to driveThat spanking old engine—fifty-five;Knew him? why, Dalley was my mate,He died beside me ...
IWhen I lived in the village of youthThere were lilies in all the orchards,Flowers in the orange-gardensFor brides to wear ...
I.Back shining from the pane, the fireSeems outside in the snow:So love set free from love's desireLights grief of long ...
To love, and to love hopelessly, It is a bitter lot!Not the idle I love that partsLight as it ...
What love is this of Thine that cannot beIn Thine infinity, O Lord, confined,Unless it in Thy very person seeInfinity ...
That lamp thou fill'st in Eros' name to-night,O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs takeTo-morrow, and for drowned Leander's sakeTo Anteros ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, ...
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