The Old Play (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IIN an old play-house, in an old play,In an old piece that has been done to death,We dance, kind ladies, ...
IIN an old play-house, in an old play,In an old piece that has been done to death,We dance, kind ladies, ...
Speak not a word of wild, blaspheming grief!Be proud, be brave, though fallen in the strife,And gaze, oh poet, with ...
I-The Song Of YouthThis is the song of youth,This is the cause of myself;I knew my father well and he ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
Not vainly did old poets tell,Nor vainly did old genius paintGod's great and crowning miracle,The hero and the saint!For even ...
On the early and lamented death of George and Maggie Rosseaux,brother and sister, who died within one week of each ...
As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd, Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;'Gainst their brothers of Britain ...
ITHAT street washed with violetWrites like a tabletOf living here; that pavementIs the metal embodimentOf living here; those terracesFilled with ...
Life is day, and death is night, Bringing with it deep, Never-ending sleep,And dreams that soothe the soul, or else affright.Life is ...
At length there dawns the glorious dayBy prophets long foretold,At length the chorus clearer growsThat shepherds heard of old.The day ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
I.Before those golden altar-lights we stood, Each one of us remembering his own dead.A more than earthly beauty seemed to ...
A still dark joy! A sudden face!Cold daylight, footsteps, cries!The temple's naked, shining space,Aglare with judging eyes!All in abandoned guilty ...
That bright-eyed and brown-skinned youth,The fine twenty-year body that should go naked,That, brow circled with copper, under the moon,An unknown ...
I am the ageless Bird of Evil Flame.Eve knew my name.With bitter tears she tried to quench the sparkOf envy ...
Peace, unto this house, I pray,Keep terror and despair away;Shield it from evil and let sinNever find lodging room within.May ...
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
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