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 Mind (29 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joshua (Charles Harpur Poems)
When Joshua in the days of old Stood forth upon old Jordan's bank, And ...
To an Echo on the Banks of the Hunter [Early Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
I hear thee, echo! And I start to hear thee With a strange shock, as from among the hillsThy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Drunkard (Charles Harpur Poems)
Disease was lurking in the cup!Disastrous folly mantling there!For promised joys he quaffed it up-And his were ruin and despair!Yes-so ...
Consolation (Charles Harpur Poems)
MINE heart is heavy with an ancient sorrow, My brain is aching with a clinging grief,And if ...
To My Young Countryman D.H.D. (Charles Harpur Poems)
Who doubteth, when the morning star doth light Her lamp of beauty, that the day is coming?Or, ...
The End of the Book (Charles Harpur Poems)
My work is finished that has been to me My only solace for this many a day.But ...
Trust in God (Charles Harpur Poems)
Deep trust in God-for that I still have sought Through all the grim doubts that bemock the ...
A Sonnet dedicated to Sir George Gipps (Charles Harpur Poems)
My country! I am sore at heart for thee! An in mine ear, like a storm-heralding breeze,A voice against ...