The New Locksley Hall (Francis W L Adams Poems)
Forty Years AfterCOMRADE, yet a little further I would go before the nightCloses round and chills in darkness all the ...
Forty Years AfterCOMRADE, yet a little further I would go before the nightCloses round and chills in darkness all the ...
(A Memory of August, 1883)I STOOD in the ghastly gleaming night by the swollen, sullen flowOf the dreadful river that ...
HE asked me of my friend - "a clever man;Such various talent, business, journalism;A pen that might some day have ...
(For the Australian Labour Federation)FLING out the Flag! Let her flap and rise in the rush of the eager air,With ...
(Melbourne)I CAME to buy a book. It was a shopDown in a narrow quiet street, and hereThey kept, I knew, ...
Susannah and Mary-JaneTWO little Darlings alone,Clinging hand in hand;Two little Girls come outTo see the wonderful land!Here round the flaring ...
. . . They caught him at the bend. He and his sonSat in the car, revolvers in their laps.From ...
(Song of the American Sons of Labour)The SongO WE knew so well, dear Father,When we answered to your call,And the ...
(PARIS)SHE. - "Up and down, up and down,From early eve to early day.Life is quicker in the town;When you've leisure, ...
CROUCHED in the terrible land,The circle of pitiless ice,With frozen bloody feetAnd her pestilential summer'sFever-throb in her brow,Look, in her ...
LIBERTY? Is that the cry, then?We have heard it oft of yore.Once it had, we think, a meaning;Let us hear ...
SHRIEKS out of smoke, a flame of dung-straw fireThat is not quenched but hath for only fruitWhat writhes and dies ...
To Mary Robinson"WHAT, are you lost, you pretty little lady?This is no place for such sweet things as you.Our bodies, ...
(Sydney)"The Man of the Nation"YONDER the band is playingAnd the fine Young People walk.They are envying each other and talkingTheir ...
It is something in this darker dream demented to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain: it is ...
Ah God, my peerless love, to have known a woman like you Would (so I have often dreamed) have set ...
WHEN day's hard task's done,Eve's scant meal partaken,Out we steal each one,Weariless, unshaken.In small reeking squares,Garbaged plots, we gather,Little knots ...
He sits. Upon the kingly head doth rest The round-balled wimple, and the heavy rings Touch on the shoulders where ...
. . . I went the other dayTo see the birds and beasts they keep enmewedIn the London Zoo. One ...
O INDIA, India, O my lovely land -At whose sweet throat the greedy English Snake,With fangs and lips that suck ...
(To --)HAD you lived when a tyrant KingStrove to make all the slaves of one,With Nobles and with Churchmen youHad ...
NOT for the thought that burns on keen and clear,Heat that the heat has turned from red to white,The passion ...
My baby girl, that was born and died on the same day"WITH wild torn heart I see them still,Wee unused ...
YOU are at least a Man, of men a King.You have a heart, and with that heart you love.The race ...
(Sydney)"Armageddon"O CITY lapped in sun and Sabbath rest,With happy face of plenteous ease possessed,Have you no doubts that whisper, dreams ...
O WE have loved you through cold and rainAnd pitiless frost,Consuming our offering of blood and brainGladly again and again ...
HE holds a pistol to my head,Swearing he will shoot me dead,If he have not my purse instead,The robber!"He, with ...
A MemoryLITTLE elfin maid,Old, though scarce two years,With your big dark hazel eyesTenderer than tears,And your rosebud mouthLisping jocund things,Breaking ...
'TIS not when I am here,In these homeless homes,Where sin and shame and diseaseAnd foul death comes;'Tis not when heart ...
WHERE is poor Jesus gone?He sits with Dives now,And his dogs flesh their teethOn Lazarus below.Where is poor Jesus gone?He ...
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