Music (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
AGAINST the wooded hills it stands,Ghost of a dead home, staring throughIts broken lights on wasted landsWhere old-time harvests grew.Unploughed, ...
Sally is gone that was so kindly,Sally is gone from Ha'nacker HillAnd the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;And ...
Thin ridges of land unploughed Along the tree-rows Covered with long cream grasses Wind-torn. Brown sand between them, Blue boughs above.. . . . . Row ...
OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Illustrious fathers of the human race, Of you, the song of your ...
HERE ain't a lavender ditty, Sung by a sweet-scented cove; Here ain't no wine-inspired, witty Story of Honour and Love. ...
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires ...
Throned like an empress on the south-most height, Keen, clear and brave, her eyes gaze northward farTo where, still ...
Good Hope! Since white men's banners First met the seaward breeze,Since first the keels of Europe Swept round ...
FARMER SYKES speaks his mind:Do you think your wireless and aeroplanesAre half as helpful as timely rains?Lang-distance 'phone an' lang-firing ...
With alien hearts to frame our laws And cheat us as of old,In vain our soil is rich, in ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Sally is gone that was so kindly, Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill And the Briar grows ever since then ...
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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