The Vagabond (Henry Lawson Poem)
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! The Big Five met in the world's light as many ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
This is the treacherous month when autumn days With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts. Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster ...
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame, Blazoned in song and ...
They are not those who used to feed us When we were young--they cannot be - These shapes that now ...
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, ...
Standing in the river swirling around them far more than water the fate of humankind Standing in the river hesitantly ...
From the palms triumphantly entering his city the crowds shouting hosanna welcoming the king but the joy did not last ...
By their action their treachery, deceit condemning the Christ God come to earth The leaders, the experts the ones who ...
Their journey, their quest following his natal star leading them to Jerusalem The king, the theocracy unaware, scared frightened by ...
To the crowds, the guards, the soldiers, those who would capture him In the dark, at that hour standing his ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
How clear she shines! How quietly I lie beneath her guardian light; While heaven and earth are whispering me, " ...
Young Mary, loitering once her garden way, Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day, As wine that blushes ...
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given ...
Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre, Where kindly mingling Souls a while, Let's innocently spend an houre, And at all ...
Water, moonlight, danger, dream. Bronze urn, angled on a tree root: one Slash of light, then gone. A red moon ...
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