The Christ of the ‘Never’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
With eyes that are narrowed to pierce To the awful horizons of land, Through the blaze of hot days, and ...
With eyes that are narrowed to pierce To the awful horizons of land, Through the blaze of hot days, and ...
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb, Seeing visions "over yonder" of the ...
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of ...
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his ...
I hoed and trenched and weeded, And took the flowers to fair: I brought them home unheeded; The hue was ...
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life Among strangers. Father and mother dear, Brothers and sisters are in ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Sometime there ben a lyttel boy That wolde not renne and play, And helpless like that little tyke Ben allwais ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
POOR River, now thou'rt almost dry, What Nymph, or Swain, will near thee lie? Since brought, alas! to sad Decay, ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
The mystery of a smile that glows within your eyes and is framed in an innocent countenance passes not unheeded. ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strown, And cold the wind that wanders ...
Though bleak these woods and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strewn, And cold the wind that wanders ...
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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 ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
O LASSIE, are ye sleepin yet, Or are ye waukin, I wad wit? For Love has bound me hand an' ...
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
O THOU pale orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines. And wanders ...
YON wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide, That nurse in their bosom the youth o' the Clyde, Where the ...
TRUE hearted was he, the sad swain o' the Yarrow, And fair are the maids on the banks of the ...
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