Charles Harpur Poems on Truth Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

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 ...

A HEAVY and desolate sense of life Is all the Past makes mine-and stillA cold contempt of ...

Yet do not thou forsake me now, Poesy, with Peace-together!Ere this last disastrous blowDid lay my struggling fortunes low,In ...

Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tellBut Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?Wherefore, in this our darkness, be ...

Have the blasts of sorrow worn thee,Have the rocks of danger torn thee,And thus shifted, wreck-like drifted,Wouldst thou find a ...

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 ...

Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...

With alien hearts to frame our laws And cheat us as of old,In vain our soil is rich, in ...

Think you I have not skill to gather gold, If I could love it as some others ...

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 ...

Charles Harpur Poems on Truth (12 Poems)