Polarities (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
SOMETIMES she is like sherry, like the sun through a vessel of glass,Like light through an oriel window in a ...
SOMETIMES she is like sherry, like the sun through a vessel of glass,Like light through an oriel window in a ...
There is a legend of an old Hartz tower That tells of one, a noble, who had sold His soul unto the ...
Q.--TELL me, Mother Nature, tell,--What of heaven and what of hell?Who doth ill and who doth well?Tell me, Mother Nature.A.--Well ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
1.LORD, I do choose the higher than my will.I would be handled by thy nursing armsAfter thy will, not my ...
Above the dark good sea the boundless air rushed here and there, it flew like a blue falcon, silently swallowing ...
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is ...
Eating, drinking, smoking, laughter,Reverly and wild to-do -They shake the inn from floor to rafterWith huzzahing and halloo.There Twardowski heads ...
And so goodbye, my love, my dear, and so goodbye, E'en thus from my sad heart go hence, depart; I ...
1 Thy mellow passioning amid the leaves, That tremble dimly in the summer dusk, Falls sad along ...
This trumpeter of nothingness, employedTo keep our reason dull and null and void.This man of wind and froth and flux ...
Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee--That entire death shall null my entire thought;And I feel torture, ...
The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at ...
O sweet To-morrow! - After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow Hope, for a ...
ALL is over! fleet career, Dash of greyhound slipping thongs, Flight of falcon, bound of deer, Mad hoof-thunder in our ...
Myself can read the Telegrams A Letter chief to me The Stock's advance and Retrograde And what the Markets say ...
To my shame I've been mending fences again. a quaint habit I inherited from my father; he would rather fix ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth ...
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