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 Sadness (23 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 ...
The Vision of the Rock (Charles Harpur Poems)
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
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 Bush Fire (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TIS nine o'clock:-to bed! cried Egremont,Who with his youthful household (for 'tis nowLong since) inhabited a lonely homeIn the Australian ...
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 ...
To the Moon [Late Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
With musing mind I watch thee steal Above those envious clouds that hid ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Babylonian Captivity (Charles Harpur Poems)
By far Euphrates' stream we state, A weary band of herded slaves,And over Judah's fallen estate We wept ...
Mary Arden (Charles Harpur Poems)
When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote,Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning ...
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 ...
Asking in Vain (Charles Harpur Poems)
Still his little grave she seeketh In her mother-sorrow wild,Hush! While in her heart she speaketh To the ...
Consolation (Charles Harpur Poems)
MINE heart is heavy with an ancient sorrow, My brain is aching with a clinging grief,And if ...
The Temperance Movement (Charles Harpur Poems)
A POWER is stirring-a broad light has shone Amid the nation's-in the wilderness Of ...
Dreams of the Beloved (Charles Harpur Poems)
HER IMAGE haunts me. Lo! I muse at even, And straight it gathers from the gloom to make ...