The Magpie Lark (C J Dennis Poems)
By lagoons and reedy places,Where the little river races By the lips of dreaming pools Where the soothing water coolsMany ...
By lagoons and reedy places,Where the little river races By the lips of dreaming pools Where the soothing water coolsMany ...
She danced thro' life as light as thistledown, The grace of Columbine, charm of Pierette,These, and that blithesome quality ...
When dandelions star the fields Another alien singer, I,Nursed upon England's flowery wealds,Seeking no tithe of treasured yields, Drop sudden ...
The gloom that breathes upon me with these airsIs like the drops which strike the traveller's browWho knows not, darkling, ...
Troy went, and Babylon the great is low; Carthage is like a withered tamarind; To Baalbeck no more the camels ...
Woodcutter.Cut my shadow from me.Free me from the tormentof being without fruit.Why was I born among mirrors?Day goes round and ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
Thistledown in prison sings: Bright shines the summer sun, Soft is the summer air; Gayly the wood-birds sing, Flowers are ...
When against earth a wooden heel Clicks as loud as stone on steel, When stone turns flour instead of flakes, ...
The wild bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily-cup, ...
To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear This paltry age's gaudy livery, To let each base hand filch ...
Here is a silence I had not hoped for This side of paradise, I am an old believer In nature's ...
In the mustardseed sun, By full tilt river and switchback sea Where the cormorants scud, In his house on stilts ...
The Muse is stern unto her favoured sons, Giving to some the keys of all the joy Of the green ...
Be honest, kindly, simple, true; Seek good in all, scorn but pretence; Whatever sorrow come to you, Believe in Life's ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
In an opal dream cave I found a fairy: Her wings were frailer than flower petals, Frailer far than snowflakes. ...
I asked her, "Is Aladdin's lamp Hidden anywhere?" "Look into your heart," she said, "Aladdin's lamp is there." She took ...
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