The Vision of the Rock (Charles Harpur Poems)
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
Standing alone, a study in itself,How Shakespeare's volume glorifies my shelf!For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined,Like a ...
Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea,Fit dirge the tempest's slave-alarming roll ...
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 ...
Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing;Of how she came when came the flowers, To ...
As his bark dashed away on the night-shrouded deep, And out towards the South he was gazing,First there passed ...
Have the blasts of sorrow worn thee,Have the rocks of danger torn thee,And thus shifted, wreck-like drifted,Wouldst thou find a ...
When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote,Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning ...
With a resplendent Eastern bride,Like a houri at my side, And music round us swelling,'Mid odours of so rare ...
Firm trust of the bold sailor on the shores of sudden storm,What strength is in its structure and the fitness ...
THE world's heart is kindless and grey and unholy, As the head of the wandering Jew,And can never be ...
In vain, when music's seraph-fire Runs kindling through the air,Making it such as gods respire, (And gods perhaps ...
Power's a cheat, success but trying, Even pleasure bears a sting;Still 'tis useless, useless sighing,Rather list to Hope replying- ...
Should Switzerland's rude rocks be held the throne Of freedom (sanctioned there by God to quellAll proud ...
How full of God those evening skies, Arrayed in calmest loveliness;But ah! To think how many eyes Are ...
He shone in the senate, the camp, and the grove,The mirror of manhood, the darling of love. He fought for ...
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