Semadar (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
IHeavily my desk uponLay a Hebrew Lexicon.As I pried into the tomeI thought me of Saint Hierome,By the Jew tormented ...
IHeavily my desk uponLay a Hebrew Lexicon.As I pried into the tomeI thought me of Saint Hierome,By the Jew tormented ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
A Pantomime of BeadsEarth VoiceISsheThoughtless of life,A lover of imminent death,Nun SnowTouching her strings of white beads?Is it her unseen ...
IOnce a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came;Full of skill was he and heartless In pursuit of ...
Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd, Less prone to value things of little worthIn failing to wax wrath about ...
Yes! I've perus'd -- with new, increas'd delightHave reperus'd, each simply flowing line;Trac'd the known landscape bursting on the sightWith ...
So die, thou child of stormy dawn,Thou winter flower, forlorn of nurse;Chilled early by the bigot's curse,The pedant's frown, the ...
Who lights the fire—that forth so gracefullyAnd freely frolicketh the fairy smoke?Some pretty one who never felt the yoke—Glad girl, ...
GO now, ingenious youth!--The trying hourIs come: The world demands that thou shouldst goTo active life: There titles, wealth, and ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; Those scentless ...
It was a fat-tyred 4WD utility hard back, the sort of ute you'd expect a contractor to drive, except it ...
WHEN, by a generous Public's kind acclaim, That dearest meed is granted-honest fame; Waen here your favour is the actor's ...
I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red ...
Fair Child of Sun and Summer! we behold With eager eyes thy wings bedropp'd with gold; The purple spots that ...
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?-- Can I conceive the woes that try men, When late repentance racks the ...
WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE, In curling waves the rapid waters shine; Where tow'ring cliffs in awful ...
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