The Minstrel (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
Arthur Henry Adams Poems on Life (23 Poems)
The Brave Days To Be. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
I looked far in the future; down the dimEcholess avenue of silent years,And through the cold grey haze of Time ...
The Anarchist. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
To You. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
SO you have come at last!And we nestle, each in each,As leans the pliant sea in the clean-curved limbs of ...
The Weakling (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
I AM a weakling. God, who made The still, strong man, made also me. The God who ...
Bereft. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
FOR nine drear nights my darling has been dead;And ah, dear God! I cannot dream of her!Now I shall see ...
And Yet – : (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
THEY drew him from the darkened room,Where, swooning in a peace profound,Beneath a heavy fragrance drownedHer grey form glimmered in ...
Bayswater.W. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
About me leagues of houses lie, Above me, grim and straight and high, They climb; the terraces lean up Like ...
Maoriland (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
MAORILAND, my mother!Holds the earth so fair another?O, my land of the moa and Maori,Garlanded grand with your forests of ...
The Wonderful Aussie Waler (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
When Allenby's Army smashed the TurkWho was the bloke who did all the workThe Aussie knows and he'll tell you ...
Blossom. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
A LONE rose in a garden burned - a quivering flame,But yesterday blindly from out the bud it came;And now ...
The Goal. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
ON the grey levels of the plain of lifeWhen, slowly swirled,The moving hills of morning mistHedged in the world -While ...
A Woman’s Farewell. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
SO with this farewell kiss I taste at lastThe all of life; the Future and the PastUpon your dear lips ...
A Portrait. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
HER glance is equable, serene;She looks at life with level brow;She strides through circumstance - a queen!To compromise she cannot ...
Myself – My Song. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
HERE, aloof, I take my stand -Alien, iconoclast -Poet of a newer land,Confident, aggressive, lonely,Product of the present only,Thinking nothing ...
Lament. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
PEACE, your little child is dead:Peace, I cannot weep with you;I have no more tears to shed;I have mourned my ...
The Poet To Be Yet. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
NOT he who sings smooth songs that soothe -Sweet opiates that lull asleepThe sorrow that would only weep;There are some ...
Blossom Of Life. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
SO now she lies silent and sweetWith white flowers at her head and feet,And she, the fairest flower, between.The bud ...
Pansy: Song-Words. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
IN a crooked angleOf a garden bower,'Neath a weedy tangleGrew a modest flower;Unpretending, unoffending,Gifted but with fancy,Unassuming in his bloomingGrew ...
Song. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
TO a woman's wistful heartIn a startled wave of feeling,Swift and sudden,Sweeps love's flood in,Joy with fear in rapture reeling;Scathe ...
My Land. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
A NEW land, like a stainless flower setIn the green foliage of the waving sea;Or like a maiden whose fair ...
The Girl At The Harp. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
LIKE Clotho, at her harp she sits and weavesWith mystic fingers from the swaying stringsA melody that ever louder singsAnd ...
A Child. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
Little wisp of wonderment,All the world your doll!Hugging it in huge content,Little wisp of wonderment;Life has only laughter sent -Everything ...