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 God (23 Poems)
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 ...
Monodies (Charles Harpur Poems)
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joshua (Charles Harpur Poems)
When Joshua in the days of old Stood forth upon old Jordan's bank, And ...
The Emigrant’s Vision (Charles Harpur Poems)
As his bark dashed away on the night-shrouded deep, And out towards the South he was gazing,First there passed ...
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 ...
Humanity (Charles Harpur Poems)
I dreamed I was a sculptor, and had wroughtOut of a towering adamantine cragA mighty figure, stately, giant-limbed,And with the ...
Coleridge’s Cristabel (Charles Harpur Poems)
Mark yon runnel, how 'tis flowing, Like a sylvan spirit dreamingOf the spring-blooms near it blowing, And the ...
Wellington (Charles Harpur Poems)
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
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, ...
Greatness (Charles Harpur Poems)
That man is truly great, and he alone Who venerates, of present things or pastThe absolute only,-is ...
Trust in God (Charles Harpur Poems)
Deep trust in God-for that I still have sought Through all the grim doubts that bemock the ...
Freedom in Faith (Charles Harpur Poems)
HIS MIND alone is kingly who (though one) But venerates of present things or pastWhat he believeth good, kneeling ...
Life and Death (Charles Harpur Poems)
A little light, heat, motion, breath;Then silence, darkness, and decay;This is the change from life to death In him ...
How Full of God (Charles Harpur Poems)
How full of God those evening skies, Arrayed in calmest loveliness;But ah! To think how many eyes Are ...
The Death of Sisera (Charles Harpur Poems)
When Deborah the prophetess ruled in God's land,And Sisera died under Jael's fierce hand,His mother looked forth at the close ...
Downward, Through The Blooming Roofage (Charles Harpur Poems)
Downward, through the blooming roofage Of a lonely forest bower,Come the yellow sunbeams,-falling Like a burning shower:So through ...