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 Soul (21 Poems)
The Vision of the Rock (Charles Harpur Poems)
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Poet 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 ...
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 ...
Cora (Charles Harpur Poems)
Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing;Of how she came when came the flowers, To ...
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 ...
The Master Mariner’s Song (Charles Harpur Poems)
(Outward Bound)AWAY, away she plunges With her white sails o'er her spread,Like the summer clouds that gather On ...
Mary Arden (Charles Harpur Poems)
When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote,Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning ...
A Dream of the Orient (Charles Harpur Poems)
With a resplendent Eastern bride,Like a houri at my side, And music round us swelling,'Mid odours of so rare ...
Wellington (Charles Harpur Poems)
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
Music (Charles Harpur Poems)
In vain, when music's seraph-fire Runs kindling through the air,Making it such as gods respire, (And gods perhaps ...
Dora (Charles Harpur Poems)
It was, I well remember, the merry springtime whenYoung Dora in the eventide came singing up the glen,And the song ...
Love (Charles Harpur Poems)
My soul; is raying like a star, My heart is happier than a bird,And all because, through fortune's jar, ...
Consolation (Charles Harpur Poems)
MINE heart is heavy with an ancient sorrow, My brain is aching with a clinging grief,And if ...
Trust in God (Charles Harpur Poems)
Deep trust in God-for that I still have sought Through all the grim doubts that bemock the ...
Outward Bound (Charles Harpur Poems)
Away, away she plunges, With her white sails o'er her spread,Like the sheety clouds that gather On some ...
‘Yes’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
MY SOUL is raying like a star,My heart is happier than a bird,And all to hear through fortune's jarOne promissory ...