The Song of Australia (Henry Lawson Poem)
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest ...
I. HOw comes the Day orecast ? the Flaming Sun Darkn'd at Noon, as if his Course were run ? ...
THe Darling of a Father Good and Wise, The Vertue, which a Vertuous Age did prize; The Beauty Excellent even ...
SO the renowned Ithacensian Queen In Tears for her Telemachus was seen, When leaving Home, he did attempt the Ire ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the world can ...
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
Artist, fashion! talk not long! Be a breath thine only song! THE DROPS OF NECTAR. WHEN Minerva, to give pleasure ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
EV'RY youth for love's sweet portion sighs, Ev'ry maiden sighs to win man's love; Why, ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
Honor and happiness unite To make the Christian's name a praise; How fair the scene, how clear the light, That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace Of youth, in those fair eyes and clustering hair, That brow untouched by ...
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
THO' 1 women's minds, like winter winds, May shift, and turn, an' a' that, The noblest breast adores them maist- ...
LIFE ne'er exulted in so rich a prize, As Burnet, lovely from her native skies; Nor envious death so triumph'd ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
Green grow the rashes, O! Green grow the rashes, O! The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent amang ...
Chor.-Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent amang ...
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