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 ...
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
I VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
Long ere I knew thee-years of loveless days, A shape would gather from my dreams, and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
As his bark dashed away on the night-shrouded deep, And out towards the South he was gazing,First there passed ...
Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With a ...
TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,Love and Hatred, Thrift and Pillage,All are housed in one small village.And if ...
My Country, though rude yet, and wild, be thy nature,This alone our proud love should beget and command:There's noon in ...
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