In The Days When The World Was Wide (Henry Lawson Poem)
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; This was the picture of Andy, Middleton's Rouseabout. Type of ...
I towered far, and lo! I stood within The presence of the Lord Most High, Sent thither by the sons ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The ...
the history of the world, the very future of life changed in that moment, when their faith prevailed when they ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
LOVERS, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
Because you love me I have much achieved, Had you despised me then I must have failed, But since I ...
We, the living, buried deep in selfish grief strive to comprehend the passing of your hour, minds are numbed, aghast ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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