The Fight at Eureka Stockade (Henry Lawson Poem)
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand To their swoll'n pride ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
THERE'S no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping A remembrance in ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
IS there a whim-inspirèd fool, Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to ...
WHEN dear Clarinda, 1 matchless fair, First struck Sylvander's raptur'd view, He gaz'd, he listened to despair, Alas! 'twas all ...
OPPRESS'D with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I set me down and sigh; O ...
WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare, One ev'ning, as I wander'd forth Along the banks of ...
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife, Friend o' my muse, friend o' my life, Are ye as idle's I am? ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
He Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy glory and grace, Withhold not, O love, from ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my ...
The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my ...
When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved, Be his faults and his follies forgot by thee ...
When first I met thee, warm and young, There shone such truth about thee, And on thy lip such promise ...
Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with you, when I might have been alive with anyone under the sun, ...
II I THINK I should have loved you presently, And given in earnest words I flung in jest; And lifted ...
1856 Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass, Joy-thundering cannon, blent with chiming bells, And martial strains, the full-voiced pæan ...
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