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 VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome heightShut paradise from exiled Adam's sight,Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayOn ...
Standing alone, a study in itself,How Shakespeare's volume glorifies my shelf!For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined,Like a ...
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 ...
When Joshua in the days of old Stood forth upon old Jordan's bank, And ...
Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tellBut Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?Wherefore, in this our darkness, be ...
WE'LL PLANT a Tree of Liberty In the centre of the land,And round it ranged as guardians ...
Who sees him walk the street, can scarce forbearTo question thus his friend, What prig goes there?So much hath Nature, ...
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
Power's a cheat, success but trying, Even pleasure bears a sting;Still 'tis useless, useless sighing,Rather list to Hope replying- ...
A POWER is stirring-a broad light has shone Amid the nation's-in the wilderness Of ...
MY SOUL is raying like a star,My heart is happier than a bird,And all to hear through fortune's jarOne promissory ...
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