Hannah Thomburn (Henry Lawson Poems)
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
Oh, man's presumption! It maketh me to smile-Tolerantly, for I am acquaintedWith the mysteries of God.Man moutheth over words,And hangeth ...
I remember, sae surely, sae surely,A certain eve in the greying season,When the hawthorns stood bare, their branchesShaking in their ...
No birds in sight. The forest withers slowly,Resigned to utter emptiness and chill.No mushrooms, but there comes from out a ...
When you come back into your town,And women come to meet you thereAnd hold above their greying headsThe children high ...
IA revelation came on Jane,The widow of a labouring swain:And first her body trembled sharp,Then all the woman was a ...
Used to come in the blue Of the glacier, at night, from Tamara. With his wingtips he drew Where the ...
I took my heart from the fire of love,Molten and warm not yet shaped clear.And tempered it to steel of ...
Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and Shang constellations, one of ...
In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were ...
The Day that Youth had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
The day that YOUTH had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
Composed of chalk dust, Pencil shavings and The sharp odour Of stale urine; It meets me now and then Creeping ...
Mary and I were twenty-two When we were wed; A well-matched pair, right smart to view The town's folk said. ...
My Lady is dancing so lightly, The belle of the Embassy Ball; I lied as I kissed her politely, And ...
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