The Female Convict’s Death. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I CHANCED to stray along the barren hillsThat stretch from Botany Bay to Sydney CoveOne cloudy morn. Full many a ...
I CHANCED to stray along the barren hillsThat stretch from Botany Bay to Sydney CoveOne cloudy morn. Full many a ...
It had rained in the night; but the morning's birthWas as calm and still as even;The heralds of day were ...
'Sit in my hand.'I'm ten.I can't see him,but I hear him breathingin the dark.It's after dinner playtime.We're outside,hidden by trees ...
The Junes were free and full, driving through tinyRoads, the mudguards brushing the cowparsley,Through fields of mustard and under boldly ...
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, buthere is the shore of the one ocean.And here the heavy future hangs ...
Would it were mine amidst the changes Through which our varied lifetime ranges, To live on Providence's bounty Down in some favoured Western ...
IN a weary land of exile there has come to me a token,A wreath of pearly mistletoe around a holly ...
Written Just Before Leaving EnglandTHERE are bright mountains in the happy West;The sun's last rays upon their summits rest;Above their ...
OOut of a bed of loveWhen that immortal hospital made one more moove to sootheThe curless counted body,And ruin and ...
All summer I heard them rustling in the shrubbery, outracing me from tier to tier in my garden, a whisper ...
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, but here is the shore of the one ocean. And here the heavy ...
You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery; ...
WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States His laughter tinkled among the teacups. I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure ...
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
There they were stuck dog and bitch halving the compass Then when with his yip they parted oh how frolicsome ...
O Out of a bed of love When that immortal hospital made one more moove to soothe The curless counted ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
As I stood upon the Dean Bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery, I felt fascinated and my heart was full ...
Beautiful Monikie! with your trees and shrubberies green And your beautiful walks, most charming to be seen: 'Tis a beautiful ...
Bonnie Mary, the Maid o' the Tay, Come! Let's go, and have a holiday In Newport, on the braes o' ...
Bonnie Kilmany, in the County of Fife, Is a healthy spot to reside in to lengthen one's life. The scenery ...
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