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 Man (32 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 ...
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 Vision of the Rock (Charles Harpur Poems)
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
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 ...
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 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 Drowned Alive (Charles Harpur Poems)
I was one so deeply drowned,That when the drag my body found,Twas void of motion, void of breath,And to sensation ...
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 ...
An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament: Early Version (Charles Harpur Poems)
Still farther would I fly, my child, To make thee safer yet,From the unsparing white man, With his ...
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 Tree of Liberty (Charles Harpur Poems)
WE'LL PLANT a Tree of Liberty In the centre of the land,And round it ranged as guardians ...
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 ...
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; ...
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, ...
Marvellous Martin (Charles Harpur Poems)
Who sees him walk the street, can scarce forbearTo question thus his friend, What prig goes there?So much hath Nature, ...
The Battle of Life (Charles Harpur Poems)
Never give up, though life be a battleWherein true men may fail, and true causes be sold; ...
The Anchor (Charles Harpur Poems)
Firm trust of the bold sailor on the shores of sudden storm,What strength is in its structure and the fitness ...
Bush Justice (Charles Harpur Poems)
A Dealer, bewitched by gain-promising dreamsSettled down near my Station, to trade with my Teams,And to sell to, my men ...
Wellington (Charles Harpur Poems)
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
Song (Charles Harpur Poems)
THE world's heart is kindless and grey and unholy, As the head of the wandering Jew,And can never be ...
A Love-Fancy (Charles Harpur Poems)
Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did rove Together in the cool and shadowless haze ...
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 ...
Greatness (Charles Harpur Poems)
That man is truly great, and he alone Who venerates, of present things or pastThe absolute only,-is ...
To My First Born (Charles Harpur Poems)
MY beautiful! For beautiful thou art To me thy father, as the morning light ...