Civilisation (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
One moment mankind rides the crested wave,A moment glorious, beyond recall;And then the wave, with slow and massive fall,Obliterates the ...
One moment mankind rides the crested wave,A moment glorious, beyond recall;And then the wave, with slow and massive fall,Obliterates the ...
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 ...
BLUE, the wreaths of smoke, like drooping bannersFrom the flaming battlements of sunsetHung suspended; and within his whareHipe, last of ...
I looked far in the future; down the dimEcholess avenue of silent years,And through the cold grey haze of Time ...
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
SO you have come at last!And we nestle, each in each,As leans the pliant sea in the clean-curved limbs of ...
I AM a weakling. God, who made The still, strong man, made also me. The God who ...
THE WIDE sun stares without a cloud: Whipped by his glances truculent The earth lies quivering and cowed. ...
FOR nine drear nights my darling has been dead;And ah, dear God! I cannot dream of her!Now I shall see ...
THEY drew him from the darkened room,Where, swooning in a peace profound,Beneath a heavy fragrance drownedHer grey form glimmered in ...
A PAIR of lovers in the street! I dare not mock: with reverence meet My unforgetting heart I cheat. ...
ONCE more this Autumn-earth is ripe, Parturient of another type. While with the Past old nations merge His ...
About me leagues of houses lie, Above me, grim and straight and high, They climb; the terraces lean up Like ...
When Allenby's Army smashed the TurkWho was the bloke who did all the workThe Aussie knows and he'll tell you ...
[According to Maori mythology, the god Tiki created Man by taking apiece of clay and moistening it with his own ...
MAORILAND, my mother!Holds the earth so fair another?O, my land of the moa and Maori,Garlanded grand with your forests of ...
Wellington.HERE, where the surges of a world of seaBreak on our bastioned walls with league-long sweep,Four fair young queens their ...
THEY lie unwatched, in waste and vacant places,In sombre bush or wind-swept tussock spaces,Where seldom human treadAnd never human trace ...
A LONE rose in a garden burned - a quivering flame,But yesterday blindly from out the bud it came;And now ...
NOW that our pathways sever here,And mine slopes down across the night,Whence I shall see you burning clearA beacon on ...
THE infinite garden of the sea is HisTo play in. Gravely smiling He resignsTo man his choice - this rugged ...
AND so in the death-darkened chamber they met,The woman that once he had loved and the one he loved yet ...
LAST night I saw the Pleiades again, Faint as a drift of steam From some tall chimney-stack; ...
BENEATH this narrow jostling street, Unruffled by the noise of feet, Like a slow organ-note I hear The pulses ...
ON the grey levels of the plain of lifeWhen, slowly swirled,The moving hills of morning mistHedged in the world -While ...
SO with this farewell kiss I taste at lastThe all of life; the Future and the PastUpon your dear lips ...
HERE is my hand to you, brother,You of the ruck who have failedI, too, am only anotherFighter who faltered and ...
Its glittering emptiness it brings — This little lane of useless things. Here peering envy arm in arm With ennui ...
I.AS some faint wisp of fragrance, floating wide -A pennant-perfume on the evening air -From a walled garden, flower-filled and ...
HER glance is equable, serene;She looks at life with level brow;She strides through circumstance - a queen!To compromise she cannot ...
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