The Shanty On The Rise (Henry Lawson Poem)
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
Midas watched the golden crust That formed over his steaming sores, Hugged his agues, loved his lust, But damned to ...
Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! ...
1 Oh! that we two were Maying 2 Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; 3 Like children with ...
O stony grey soil of Monaghan The laugh from my love you thieved; You took the gay child of my ...
Since that first morning when I crawled into the world, a naked grubby thing, and found the world unkind, my ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand grey to the ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand gray to the ...
After the first astounding rush, after the weeks at the lake, the crystal, the clouds, the water lapping the rocks, ...
Her brown falcon perches above the sink as steaming water forks over my hands. Below the wrists they shrivel and ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
the fog rising from the skin of the lake joining my breath, visible, glinting in the early fall morning light ...
Is it the soup, or its making that soothes, bleeds stress, changes the mind, cutting through the cares of the ...
A break in the heat away from the front no thunder, no lightning, just rain, warm rain falling near dusk ...
Good editor Dana--God bless him, we say-- Will soon be afloat on the main, Will be steaming away Through the ...
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod stove-warmed flatiron slid under the covers, mornings a damascene- sealed bizarrerie of fernwork ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
Writing from Boston, where sky is simply property, a flourish topping crowds of condos and historic real estate, I'm trying ...
The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize in the ...
Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold Invades our very ...
THUS the Mayne glideth Where my Love abideth; Sleep 's no softer: it proceeds On through lawns, on through meads, ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
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