Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
With musing mind I watch thee steal Above those envious clouds that hid ...
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild,A speck-like Cloud, the season's fated child,Came softly floating up the boundless sky,And ...
LONG ere I knew thee-years of loveless days- A Shape would gather from my dreams and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing;Of how she came when came the flowers, To ...
I dreamed I was a sculptor, and had wroughtOut of a towering adamantine cragA mighty figure, stately, giant-limbed,And with the ...
When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote,Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning ...
A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted, He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands ...
With alien hearts to frame our laws And cheat us as of old,In vain our soil is rich, in ...
A POWER is stirring-a broad light has shone Amid the nation's-in the wilderness Of ...
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