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 ...
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
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 ...
LOFTY and strenuous of sentimentBut narrow and partial in its scope and bent,And thence the bigot of a local setOf ...
Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tellBut Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?Wherefore, in this our darkness, be ...
O SAY, if into sudden storm Some future cloud we may not shunShould burst, and Love's bright world deform, ...
Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With 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 ...
HOW few through Memory's dreamy scope,However resolute of hope,Can view the backward scene where firstTheir youth rejoiced-for ever crost-And not ...
MINE heart is heavy with an ancient sorrow, My brain is aching with a clinging grief,And if ...
Little, perhaps, thou valuest verse of mine- Little hast read of what my hand has wrought,Yet I ...
There's a regret that from my bosom aye Wrings forth a dirgy sweetness, like a rain ...
MY beautiful! For beautiful thou art To me thy father, as the morning light ...
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