The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
(For Sara Teasdale) The lonely farm, the crowded street, The palace and the slum, Give welcome to my silent feet ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Lay these words into the dead man's grave next to the almonds and black cherries--- tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
WEAVE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters ...
Pindaric Ode "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait! Tho' fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
After the chaos, the blizzard of wrapping, boxes, bows toys and games and clothes being torn from their slumber the ...
In the small space the spare bedroom-sized place between the maple tree and the shrub, just beyond the dandelion patch ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake, a pasty Syrian with a few words of English ...
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
In a vision of the night I saw them, In the battles of the night. 'Mid the roar and the ...
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 ...
Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions When George's Grandmamma was told That George ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'ver the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...
Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane shivers and moans upon its dripping pin, ragged on chimneys the cloud whips, the ...
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance: They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in ...
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