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 ...
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea,Fit dirge the tempest's slave-alarming roll ...
A HEAVY and desolate sense of life Is all the Past makes mine-and stillA cold contempt of ...
When Joshua in the days of old Stood forth upon old Jordan's bank, And ...
I dreamt my little boys were dead And I was sitting wild and lone;On closed unmoving knees my head ...
As his bark dashed away on the night-shrouded deep, And out towards the South he was gazing,First there passed ...
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 ...
Never give up, though life be a battleWherein true men may fail, and true causes be sold; ...
Firm trust of the bold sailor on the shores of sudden storm,What strength is in its structure and the fitness ...
NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheen Flaking the city house-tops, till I feel ...
When Deborah the prophetess ruled in God's land,And Sisera died under Jael's fierce hand,His mother looked forth at the close ...
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