How the Land was Won (Henry Lawson Poem)
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
Physician Nature! Let my spirit blood! O ease my heart of verse and let me rest; Throw me upon thy ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown ...
What is unwisdom but the lusting after Longevity: to be old and full of days! For the vast and unremitting ...
Is this a life, to break thy sleep, To rise as soon as day doth peep? To tire thy patient ...
Christ of His gentleness Thirsting and hungering, Walked in the wilderness; Soft words of grace He spoke Unto lost desert-folk ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Yet read at last the story of my woe, The dreary abstracts of my endless cares, With my life's sorrow ...
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered -- Safer not to know -- Miseries of conjecture ...
I thought the Train would never come -- How slow the whistle sang -- I don't believe a peevish Bird ...
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
In Virgynë the sweltrie sun gan sheene, And hotte upon the mees did caste his raie; The apple rodded from ...
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my Soul ...
Hatred and vengence-my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare, One ev'ning, as I wander'd forth Along the banks of ...
I heard an Angel singing When the day was springing, 'Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.' Thus he sung ...
Adieu dear object of my Love's excess, And with thee all my hopes of happiness, With the same fervent and ...
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes, That chase one another like waves of the deep -- Each ...
She wavered, stopped and turned, methought her eyes, The deep grey windows of her heart, were wet, Methought they softened ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
No more for you the city's thorny ways, The ugly corners of the Negro belt; The miseries and pains of ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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