Sweeney (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, How the handsome Yenadizze Danced at Hiawatha's wedding; How the gentle Chibiabos, He the sweetest ...
The cloud struggled against the sand underneath the rain of "no" and "yes", forcefully treading on the rationale that obeys ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
O marvel, fruit of fruits, I pause To reckon thee. I ask what cause Set free so much of red ...
Swimming the English Channel, struggling to make it to Calais, I swam into Laura halfway across. My body oiled for ...
I O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough - Light in their loving as soldiers can be - ...
(a) radical ban all fires and places where people congregate to create comfort put an end to sleep good cooking ...
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
Not just one thing all of it connected all important the whole salad of life Our faith, our work family ...
Painful steps, unfathomable, perhaps To walk through those doors Into a familiar foreign place A necessary evil, or is it ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
ONCE on the kind of day called "weather breeder," When the heat slowly hazes and the sun By its own ...
A full moon shines over the morning frost; the lanes are full of late-fallen leaves; walking across the mulch is ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
I serve you not, if you I follow, Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow, And bend my fancy to your leading, ...
My mother would be a falconress, And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, would fly to bring back from ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading -- treading -- till it seemed ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once on an evening in a desolate place far from the madding crowds eternal strife I stood ...
Away, sad thoughts, and teasing Perplexities, away! Let other blood go freezing, We will be wise and gay. For here ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
SOFTLY as brown-eyed Angels rove I will return to thy alcove, And glide upon the night to thee, Treading the ...
Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
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