Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
Charles Harpur Poems on Beauty (29 Poems)
The Creek of the Four Graves [Late Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
The Creek of the Four Graves [Early Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
I VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
Love Sonnets (Charles Harpur Poems)
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
The Ideal (Charles Harpur Poems)
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome heightShut paradise from exiled Adam's sight,Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayOn ...
The Nevers of Poetry (Charles Harpur Poems)
Never say aught in verse, or grave or gay,That you in prose would hesitate to say.Never in rhyme pretend to ...
To the Moon [Late Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
With musing mind I watch thee steal Above those envious clouds that hid ...
To the Moon [Earlier Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
The Death Of Shelley (Charles Harpur Poems)
Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea,Fit dirge the tempest's slave-alarming roll ...
Description of a Tropical Island (Charles Harpur Poems)
Behold an Indian isle, reposedUpon the deep's enamoured breast,Even like a royal bride, be-rosedWith passion in her happy rest.Or, when ...
Finality (Charles Harpur Poems)
A HEAVY and desolate sense of life Is all the Past makes mine-and stillA cold contempt of ...
Wordsworth (Charles Harpur Poems)
LOFTY and strenuous of sentimentBut narrow and partial in its scope and bent,And thence the bigot of a local setOf ...
A Poet to… (Charles Harpur Poems)
Long ere I knew thee-years of loveless days, A shape would gather from my dreams, and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
To — (Charles Harpur Poems)
LONG ere I knew thee-years of loveless days- A Shape would gather from my dreams and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
Onward (Charles Harpur Poems)
Have the blasts of sorrow worn thee,Have the rocks of danger torn thee,And thus shifted, wreck-like drifted,Wouldst thou find a ...
Dawn in the Mountains (Charles Harpur Poems)
It is the morning star, arising slowOut of yon hill's dark bulk, as she were bornOf its desire for day; ...
The Enquiry (Charles Harpur Poems)
O SAY, if into sudden storm Some future cloud we may not shunShould burst, and Love's bright world deform, ...
The Beautiful Squatter (Charles Harpur Poems)
Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With a ...
Bush Justice (Charles Harpur Poems)
A Dealer, bewitched by gain-promising dreamsSettled down near my Station, to trade with my Teams,And to sell to, my men ...
Memory’s Genesis (Charles Harpur Poems)
HOW few through Memory's dreamy scope,However resolute of hope,Can view the backward scene where firstTheir youth rejoiced-for ever crost-And not ...
The Flight of Peace (Charles Harpur Poems)
TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,Love and Hatred, Thrift and Pillage,All are housed in one small village.And if ...
Love (Charles Harpur Poems)
My soul; is raying like a star, My heart is happier than a bird,And all because, through fortune's jar, ...
To My Young Countryman D.H.D. (Charles Harpur Poems)
Who doubteth, when the morning star doth light Her lamp of beauty, that the day is coming?Or, ...
To Mary (Charles Harpur Poems)
WHERE Beauty is smiling With Love undenied,Where Gladness is flowing From Pleasure's hill-side,Whatever of charming I elsewhere ...
To My First Born (Charles Harpur Poems)
MY beautiful! For beautiful thou art To me thy father, as the morning light ...
Records of Romantic Passion (Charles Harpur Poems)
THERE'S a rare Soul of Poesy which may be But concentrated by the chastened dreamsOf constant hearts. ...
‘Yes’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
MY SOUL is raying like a star,My heart is happier than a bird,And all to hear through fortune's jarOne promissory ...
The Forgotten (Charles Harpur Poems)
He shone in the senate, the camp, and the grove,The mirror of manhood, the darling of love. He fought for ...
Poetry and Prose (Charles Harpur Poems)
What is the true difference 'twixt Prose and Rhyme,Since both may be beautiful, both be sublime?Nor in subject, nor treatment, ...