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 Gold (16 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 ...
Ned Connor (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
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 ...
Shakespeare (Charles Harpur Poems)
Standing alone, a study in itself,How Shakespeare's volume glorifies my shelf!For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined,Like a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cora (Charles Harpur Poems)
Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing;Of how she came when came the flowers, To ...
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; ...
A Dream of the Orient (Charles Harpur Poems)
With a resplendent Eastern bride,Like a houri at my side, And music round us swelling,'Mid odours of so rare ...
Music (Charles Harpur Poems)
In vain, when music's seraph-fire Runs kindling through the air,Making it such as gods respire, (And gods perhaps ...
Dawn and Sunrise in the Snowy Mountains (Charles Harpur Poems)
A few thin strips of fleecy cloud lies longAnd motionless above the eastern steeps,Like shreds of silver lace: till suddenly,Out ...
On the Easter Illumination (Charles Harpur Poems)
Four thousand lamps of gold and silver light Suspended round the mighty dome, and o erThose rows ...
This Southern Land of Ours (Charles Harpur Poems)
With alien hearts to frame our laws And cheat us as of old,In vain our soil is rich, in ...
To James Norton Esq. (Charles Harpur Poems)
Think you I have not skill to gather gold, If I could love it as some others ...