The Days when we went Swimming (Henry Lawson Poems)
The breezes waved the silver grass, Waist-high along the siding,And to the creek we ne'er could pass Three boys on bare-back riding;Beneath ...
The breezes waved the silver grass, Waist-high along the siding,And to the creek we ne'er could pass Three boys on bare-back riding;Beneath ...
HONOR to him whose very blood remembersThe old, enchanted dream-song of the Rhine,Although his house of life. is fair with ...
He had no heart for war, its ways and means,Its train of machinations and machines,Its murky provenance, its flagrant ends;His ...
Slow and reluctant was the long descent,With many farewell pious looks behind,And dumb misgivings where the path might wind,And questionings ...
I.IN the beautiful Castleton Island a mansion of lordly style,Embowered in gardens and lawns, looks over the glimmering bay.In the ...
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
Nobody knew why it should be so;Nobody knew or wanted to know. It might have been checked had but someone ...
Ah! the pleasant time hath vanished, ere our wretched doubtingsbanished,All the graceful spirit-people, children of the earth and sea,Whom in ...
It is a winter's taleThat the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakesAnd floating fields from the farm in the ...
It was the dead midnight; No star was in the sky; The struggling moon shed a troubled light As she ...
The swevens came up round Harold the Earl,Like motes in the sunnes beam;And over him stood the Weird Lady,In her ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved?Is not now each earthly conflict ended? ...
I saw Christ on an Easter dayAmid the hurrying throngThat wended to the stately church.I stood and watched Him long. ...
THE queen in the lofty hall takes her place, The tapers around her are flaming; She speaks to the page: ...
Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of ...
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved? Is not now each earthly conflict ...
Oh, the new-chum went to the backblock run, But he should have gone there last week. He tramped ten miles ...
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of November, Which the friends of the late Ex-Provost Rough ...
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
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