A Basket of Flowers (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
DawnOn skies still and starlit White lustres take hold,And grey flushes scarlet, And red flashes gold.And sun-glories coverThe rose shed ...
DawnOn skies still and starlit White lustres take hold,And grey flushes scarlet, And red flashes gold.And sun-glories coverThe rose shed ...
DelilahThe sun has gone down, spreading wide on The sky-line one ray of red fire;Prepare the soft cushions ...
FORRESTI've won the two tosses from Prescot;Now hear me, and hearken and heed,And pull that vile flower from your waistcoat,And ...
Ars LongaOur hopes are wild imaginings, Our schemes are airy castles,Yet these, on earth, are lords and ...
Two years ago I was thinking On the changes that years bring forth;Now I stand where I then stood drinking ...
'TWAS midst the battle's echoing dinAnd the cannon's thundering roar,When brave men fought to die or winAnd the decks ran ...
A stone upon her heart and head, But no name written on that stone;Sweet neighbours whisper low instead, This sinner ...
Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles, Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf;Why should he labour to ...
Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness'd in the ...
Adieu to kindred hearts and home, To pleasure, joy, and mirth,A fitter foot than mine to roam Could scarcely tread ...
The Lord shall slay or the Lord shall save! He is righteous whether He save or slay —Brother, give thanks ...
WHITE steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roarOn the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom's ...
Oh, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirr'd And rustled by the scented breath of spring; Oh, the ...
When he, that shepherd false, 'neath Phrygian sails, Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas,In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the ...
I've something of the bull-dog in my breed, The spaniel is developed somewhat less;While life is in me I can ...
An Episode in the Life of the Poet while in theMounted, Police Force in AustraliaGordon, mounted, loq.Ho ! you chap ...
We severed in Autumn early,Ere the earth was torn by the plough;The wheat and the oats and the barleyAre ripe ...
Borrow'd PlumesPrologueOf borrow'd plumes I take the sin, My extracts will applyTo some few silly songs ...
JONES plays the deuce with his grammar,Knocks time and tense into tin-tacks ;Brown, the big Visigoth, wielding blunt hammer,Mauls right ...
Lay me low, my work is done;I am weary. Lay me low,Where the wild flowers woo the sun,Where the balmy ...
The spring-wind pass'd through the forest, and whispered low in the leaves, And the cedar toss'd her head, and the ...
WHENEVER you meet with a man from homeWho laughs at the falls and the fences here,Who tells you of crackers ...
PUT no faith in aught you meet with, friends or lovers,new or old,Never trust the gamest racehorse that was everreared ...
Here's a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,If his heart be true, I care not what his ...
WHEREAS ! L. Gordon having gone awayBy virtue of the law we here decreeThat all his goods shall confiscated be.And ...
'Tis a wicked world we live in;Wrong in reason, wrong in rhyme;But no matter: we'll not give inWhile we still ...
They say that poison-sprinkled flowers Are sweeter in perfumeThan when, untouched by deadly dew, They glowed in early bloom.They say ...
A ValentineThough I have loved you well, I ween, And you, too, fancied me,Your heart hath too divided been A ...
A man is independent of the world,And little recks of strife or angry brawl,If 'gainst a host his banner be ...
CHARLEY Here I am at lastQuartered in my old position,Though from having lived so fastI 'm in rather poor condition.Came ...
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