Charles Harpur Poems on Love Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

A Hunter’s Indian Dove (Charles Harpur Poems)

DARK is her cheek, but her blood's rich blushComes through its dusk with a sunset flush,While joy, like a prairie-bee, ...

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 ...

Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)

Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finality (Charles Harpur Poems)

A HEAVY and desolate sense of life Is all the Past makes mine-and stillA cold contempt of ...

Wordsworth (Charles Harpur Poems)

LOFTY and strenuous of sentimentBut narrow and partial in its scope and bent,And thence the bigot of a local setOf ...

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 ...

Love, Dreaming of Death (Charles Harpur Poems)

I dreamt my little boys were dead And I was sitting wild and lone;On closed unmoving knees my head ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Beautiful Squatter (Charles Harpur Poems)

Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With a ...

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 ...

Absence (Charles Harpur Poems)

NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheen Flaking the city house-tops, till I feel ...

Hope On (Charles Harpur Poems)

Power's a cheat, success but trying, Even pleasure bears a sting;Still 'tis useless, useless sighing,Rather list to Hope replying- ...

Dora (Charles Harpur Poems)

It was, I well remember, the merry springtime whenYoung Dora in the eventide came singing up the glen,And the song ...

The Flight of Peace (Charles Harpur Poems)

TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,Love and Hatred, Thrift and Pillage,All are housed in one small village.And if ...

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, ...

The Hunter’s Indian Dove (Charles Harpur Poems)