A Love Fancy (Charles Harpur Poems)
Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did roveTogether in the cool and shadowless hazeThat thickened round, at the wild ...
Charles Harpur Poems on Heaven (24 Poems)
Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
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 ...
The Vision of the Rock (Charles Harpur Poems)
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
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 Bush Fire (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TIS nine o'clock:-to bed! cried Egremont,Who with his youthful household (for 'tis nowLong since) inhabited a lonely homeIn the Australian ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Cloud (Charles Harpur Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cora (Charles Harpur Poems)
Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing;Of how she came when came the flowers, To ...
To Poesy (Charles Harpur Poems)
Yet do not thou forsake me now, Poesy, with Peace-together!Ere this last disastrous blowDid lay my struggling fortunes low,In ...
To the Comet of 1843 [late version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tellBut Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?Wherefore, in this our darkness, be ...
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, ...
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 ...
Absence (Charles Harpur Poems)
NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheen Flaking the city house-tops, till I feel ...
A Love-Fancy (Charles Harpur Poems)
Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did rove Together in the cool and shadowless haze ...
Dreams of the Beloved (Charles Harpur Poems)
HER IMAGE haunts me. Lo! I muse at even, And straight it gathers from the gloom to make ...