The Amber Whale: A Harpooneer’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
Beneath the Southern Seas, within the earthEmbowelled, the mighty earth-fires slumbered onUntil the waking time, and then, with strangeAppalling sounds, ...
Down here where the ships loom large in The gloom when the sea-storms veer,Down here on the south-west margin Of the western ...
LIKE a black enamoured king whispered low the thunder To the lights of Roslyn, terraced far asunder; Hovered low the ...
O Lord, God,of nations and of us tooListen to us,Cherish usLet goodness flourish,May your blessings flow.DefendAotearoaLet all people,Red skin, white ...
BLUE, the wreaths of smoke, like drooping bannersFrom the flaming battlements of sunsetHung suspended; and within his whareHipe, last of ...
I looked far in the future; down the dimEcholess avenue of silent years,And through the cold grey haze of Time ...
We had many problems set us when Coolgardie was a camp,When the journey to the goldfields meant a coach-fare or ...
[According to Maori mythology, the god Tiki created Man by taking apiece of clay and moistening it with his own ...
MAORILAND, my mother!Holds the earth so fair another?O, my land of the moa and Maori,Garlanded grand with your forests of ...
The wind that through the forest blows May scatter leaves and blossoms wide. The parent tree but ...
The spirits' mountain, such the nameThe early Maori gave:Where's his forgotten grave?We know not; but thou'rt still the sameGloomy and ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold The billows are ceaselessly combing, Away in a village all tranquil and ...
The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known; Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone; ...
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