The Australiad (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,And no great harm, unless at grave expenseOf ...
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss?He--proud and scornful, he--who laughed ...
"Feel me to do right," our father said on his deathbed.We did not quite know-in fact, not at all-what he ...
A king has fallen on the field-The field of war, but not by shot,Nor even through a broken shield:He died ...
All were quite gracious in their plaudits ofBud's Fairy; but another stir aboveThat murmur was occasioned by a sweetYoung lady-caller, ...
Opening the mists on a sudden through,An Avenue!Then, all one ferment of varied gold,With foam of plumes where the chamfrom ...
In sea and air, in leaf and stone, Where'er Truth's magic words are writ,Where thousands throng, or rapt and ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the world can ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
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