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 ...
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome heightShut paradise from exiled Adam's sight,Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayOn ...
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
I was one so deeply drowned,That when the drag my body found,Twas void of motion, void of breath,And to sensation ...
LONG ere I knew thee-years of loveless days- A Shape would gather from my dreams and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tellBut Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?Wherefore, in this our darkness, be ...
O SAY, if into sudden storm Some future cloud we may not shunShould burst, and Love's bright world deform, ...
That man is truly great, and he alone Who venerates, of present things or pastThe absolute only,-is ...
HIS MIND alone is kingly who (though one) But venerates of present things or pastWhat he believeth good, kneeling ...
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