Queen Esther (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
ILong centuries ago, a mighty KingEnthron'd within his palace, gave commandTo summon all the nobles of his realm,And princes of ...
ILong centuries ago, a mighty KingEnthron'd within his palace, gave commandTo summon all the nobles of his realm,And princes of ...
On rising ground the farmer's dwelling stood ;Its foliaged walls and purple vines looked downOn fields which sloped to meet ...
Beneath the Southern Seas, within the earthEmbowelled, the mighty earth-fires slumbered onUntil the waking time, and then, with strangeAppalling sounds, ...
UPON a rounded hill at Wollongong,A silent hill which hears by night and dayThe never-ceasing voices of the waves,An ancient ...
One who rejoiced that many served the Lord,Beheld, amongst the simple and the grand,In homes and churches, schools, and bed-filled ...
IAs I lay sleeping yesternight,The fairies came to me ;The moon, full-orb'd, gave ample light,Enabling me to seeThe little, green-clad, ...
The twelve Apostles sought the Master's face,And told Him all that they had said and done :But people thronged Him ...
WITHIN the ancient Abbey now are gatheredFrom all the world the high estates of menTo see the Coronation of the ...
In a church in New York City,On the weekly day of rest,There were young, and old, and pretty -Plainly some, ...
" YOU have been kind to me, I give you allI have, my gratitude, and now I goWith this my ...
From far on the ocean these waters have come,And curving and breaking and frolicsome,Or gracefully lingering in spray,They drench the ...
To take a gift and spurn the noble Giver,To soil in gross perversion of its endA gift becoming even God ...
A HUNDRED years and more have run their courseSince settlers saw the River Hawkesbury,And came to till the lands its ...
I WAS walking in the sunshine on an afternoon in Spring,All the air was full of sweetness, all the pastures ...
INow fervent be our festal lay,Our hearts with joy are lighted,While all the world beholds to-dayOur Continent united :And England's ...
From peaceful Galilee, its grassy plainsAnd vine-clothed slopes and olive-planted hills,From thriving towns and Galilee's blue sea,The Saviour journeyed to ...
"The anarchy of dreaming sleep."The baby left the big front door,And toddled past the garden bower ;And where two trees ...
We saw the ships come in,The whole sixteen !And sixteen thousand men, our kith and kin,Manned the white ships as ...
Thine ocean laughed for joy, and all thy shoresResounded gleefully ; the towering cliffsAnd deep-set, tree-filled vales had voice and ...
So noiselessly and lightlyThese leaves are falling down ;The wind comes sighing through the trees,The heavens seem to frown ;The ...
The wind was blowing lightlyAlong the gleaming sea,The sun was shining brightlyOn children in their glee,On vessels in the harbour,And ...
PLAYFULLY plashing upon the smooth beach,Giving your music my musings to teach,Helping my spirit your Maker to preach ;Wavelets, come ...
UPON a pleasant hill, whose young green grassThe freshlier seems since rain has drawn the longParch'd land to sing, a ...
Enthroned above all other ThronesAs Universal King,Thy Majesty Australia owns :Father, Thy love we sing !And humbly own Thy gracious ...
A COUNTRY parson and his little son,Through the still night were homeward driving on ;The darkness could be felt, for ...
Once in winter-time in EnglandWhen the snow lay on the ground,As a child walked near a garden,Let me tell you ...
COMING so silently down through the air,Falling so lightly to lie here below,Throwing its mantle so white everywhere,Welcome to-day is ...
Although at noon thy sun went down, yet stillIt shineth, and for evermore shall shine.Not Scotland's sons alone, men's hearts ...
O Illawarra ! dowered with lavish hand,Thy fadeless glories be it mine to sing ;For thou art beautiful in everythingBetween ...
Ah, let us keep the soldier's memory greenWhose martial fame was known the Empire o'er ;So cool in judgment 'midst ...
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