The Schoolhouse On The Plain (Joseph Furphy Poems)
(From "An Idyll of the Wimmera.")On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries joinAt a level and interminable laneYou can ...
(From "An Idyll of the Wimmera.")On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries joinAt a level and interminable laneYou can ...
Here's a vestibule. On holidaysOvercome by slavish fear,The whole population, in a state of awe,Rushes to the sacred doors.Having left ...
These recollections with the scent of ferns Are the idyll of early years (Gregorio Gutierrez Gonz(Jose Asuncion Silva)
As it has for so longcome wind and all weatherthe house glimmers amongthe mists of a littleriver that splinters, itseems, ...
From the idyll "Wild Thorn and Lily"O Maytime woods! O Maytime lanes and hours!And stars, that knew how often there ...
HE.See the smoke-wreaths how they curl so lightly skywardFrom the ivied cottage nestled in the trees:Such a lovely spot-I really ...
Lying full-length upon the summer grass,And by the murmur of a summer stream,I heard the village bell, and turning roundTo ...
The Rhymes That Our Hearts Can ReadWe are sated of songs that hymn the praiseOf a world beyond our ken;We ...
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: "I've been writing for two years now and I've composed only ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
Should Heaven send me any son, I hope he's not like Tennyson. I'd rather have him play a fiddle Than ...
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