Widderin’s Race. Australian. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
On through the mist of the morning,On through the midday glare;A hard, rough ride by the Rosebud's side,Cutting swaths through ...
When they were come into Faery's CourtThey rang -- no one at home -- all gone to sportAnd dance and ...
Mount -- mount for the hunting -- with musket and spear!Call our friends to the field -- for the Lion ...
AH! who can imagine what plague and what bothersHe feels, who sits down to write verses for others!His pen must ...
Come, horsemen all, from every fieldAnd taste this rare delight,And see what English pastures yieldTo those whose hearts beat right!Come, ...
The afternoon of summer foldsIts warm arms round the marigolds,And with its gleaming fingers, petsThe watered pinks and violetsThat from ...
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
INow farewell to you! you areOne of my dearest, whom I trust:Now follow you the Western star,And cast the old ...
Behold! As from the shades of night, An army gathers full of might, And strong with constant courage stands 'Tween ...
The boss last night in the hut did say —"We start to muster at break of day;So be up first ...
It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator,Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' ...
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried ...
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator, Who was going down the township just to make a bit ...
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