The Truant (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
Dawn from the Foretop! Dawn from the Barrel! A scurry of feet with a roar overhead;The master-watch wildly pointing to ...
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
Here the tides flow,And here they ebb;Not with that dull, unsinewed tread of watersHeld under bonds to moveAround unpeopled shores-Moon-driven ...
Time-morningA half-point Nor'ard from the West,A bluish-tinted spot of light,Now deep below, ...
It's not for us to understandHow life on earth began to be,How forms that lived within the seaShould leave the ...
The rust of hours, Through a year of days,Has dulled the edge of the pain; But at night A ...
Close to the dunnest hour of night,Sniffing the odour of the brew,Their bat-wings oiled for water flight,The Devil and his ...
It took the sea a thousand years,A thousand years to traceThe granite features of this cliff,In crag and scarp and ...
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