The Ghost (Henry Lawson Poem)
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white, And you cannot sleep for thinking how you'll ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
What the moral? Who rides may read. When the night is thick and the tracks are blind A friend at ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell; But of else than ...
I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time, Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim, On ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
There is a Shame of Nobleness -- Confronting Sudden Pelf -- A finer Shame of Ecstasy -- Convicted of Itself ...
In silent night when rest I took For sorrow near I did not look I waked was with thund'ring noise ...
In silent night when rest I took, For sorrow near I did not look, I waken'd was with thund'ring noise ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
I. Of the million or two, more or less, I rule and possess, One man, for some cause undefined, Was ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
The sun strikes down with a blinding glare; The skies are blue and the plains are wide, The saltbush plains ...
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
"Aye," said the boozer, "I tell you it's true, sir, I once was a punter with plenty of pelf, But ...
I left the course, and by my side There walked a ruined tout -- A hungry creature, evil-eyed, Who poured ...
The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known; Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone; ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me, And I'll tell ye of a great victory. Where the British ...
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port On board a privateer, in search of sport, ...
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