The Liberal Constitution (C J Dennis Poems)
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, His wife would eat ...
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, His wife would eat ...
This is the spell of the Orient &mdashThe lure of the far, far East,A lure that is soft and luxuriant ...
Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed on me to go To see the dazzling splendors of a ...
The woodmen's blows responsive ring, As on the trees they fall; And when the birds their sweet notes sing, ...
SOFT Sensibility! subduing power,Thy thorns are wounding while I pluck the flower;Thy influence all unseen, beyond controul,Rouses each finer feeling ...
Poets have sung of the old-fashioned glories The old-fashioned pictures that hung on the wall,The old-fashioned people, the old-fashioned stories, ...
With axle creaking, all on fire I went, To fetch my young and lovely bride. No thirst or hunger pangs ...
Hark! from the islet in the stream the voice Of the fish-hawks that o'er their nests rejoice! From them our ...
One, dressed in purple and linen,Sat at his ease, in state;The other, a leprous beggar,Lay at the rich man's gate:Dainty ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
HERE, Here I live with what my board Can with the smallest cost afford; Though ne'er so mean the viands ...
Here we broached the Christmas barrel, Pushed up the charred log-ends; Here we sang the Christmas carol, And called in ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Talk with prudence to a Beggar Of "Potose," and the mines! Reverently, to the Hungry Of your viands, and your ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
Morn in the wake of the morning star Came furrowing all the orient into gold. We rose, and each by ...
Which was Held in the Queens Hotel, Perth, on the Evening of 5th September 1894 'Twas in the year of ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship's golden chain; Whene'er they met, the fox would ...
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