Humanity (Charles Harpur Poems)
I dreamed I was a sculptor, and had wroughtOut of a towering adamantine cragA mighty figure, stately, giant-limbed,And with the ...
I dreamed I was a sculptor, and had wroughtOut of a towering adamantine cragA mighty figure, stately, giant-limbed,And with the ...
So he, with a clear shout of laughter,Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, ...
Majuba Day! Majuba Day!Here's a health to Bobs and his force to-day!For the wiped-out shame from Britannia's fame,And the work ...
Oh, what a pleasant game is life When we are bravely battingAnd glorying in skill and strife. We ...
What other woman could be loved like you,Or how of you should love possess his fill?After the fulness of all ...
Lady, I thank thee for thy loveliness,Because my lady is more lovely still.Glorying I gaze, and yield with glad goodwillTo ...
Even as a child, of sorrow that we giveThe dead, but little in his heart can find,Since without need of ...
I am an iconoclast. I delightIn upsetting dignified customs; In seeing their frilled petticoatsAnd pantalettes fluttering,Upturned helplessly to heaven.I like ...
On the first night of the full moon, the primeval sack of ocean broke, & I gave birth to you ...
The simple cross of wood around my neck, reminding symbol of the cross of Jesus where he suffered and died ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
In early morning twilight, raw and chill, Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill, Through miles of mire in steady ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's ...
Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Hurrah! I'm off to Finistere, to Finistere, to Finistere; My satchel's swinging on my back, my staff is in my ...
If you could crowd them into forty lines! Yes; you can do it, once you get a start; All that ...
The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing Of boughs that dip and strain; young, slanting sprays Beckon and shift ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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