The Stone (Peter McArthur Poems)
A MAN! A man! There is a man loose in Canada,A man of heroic mould, a 'throwback' of earlier ages,Vigorous, ...
A MAN! A man! There is a man loose in Canada,A man of heroic mould, a 'throwback' of earlier ages,Vigorous, ...
I.'Lift me without the tent, I say,-Me and my ottoman,-I'll see the messenger myself!It is the caravanFrom Africa, thou sayest,And ...
Two thousand years agone They heap'd my battle-grave,And each a tear and each a stone My mourning warriors gave;For I had borne ...
Be glad, thou tranquil Hindostan, That God such mercy gives,—That tribe with tribe, and man with man In friendly concord lives!Rejoice, for ...
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
Now Cleo, fly round! Father's going to townWith a load o' red russets, to meet Captain Brown;The mortgage is due, ...
"Sleep, love, sleep! The dusty day is done. Lo! from afar the freshening breezes sweep Wide over groves of balm, ...
Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark,nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed himto hear the din of the ...
Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew, Half bold and half timid, yet lazy all through; Loath ever ...
YOU modern men, purveyors of perfection,Whose blazoned gifts from catalogue andhoardingRefurbish hackneyed eulogies, recordingYour stock's worth and all rivalry's subjection ...
I took it for a bird of prey that soaredHigh over ocean, battled mount, and plain;'Twas but a bird-moth, which ...
THOUGHT is a garden wide and oldFor airy creatures to explore,Where grow the great fantastic flowersWith truth for honey at ...
Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by But when it leaves us for a time 'Tis ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
There were still shards of an ancient pastoral in those shires of the island where the cattle drank their pools ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
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