Elijah (Henry Kendall Poems)
INTO that good old Hebrew's soul sublimeThe spirit of the wilderness had passed;For where the thunders of imperial StormRolled over ...
Henry Kendall Poems on Beauty (67 Poems)
Morning in the Bush (Henry Kendall Poems)
Above the skirts of yellow clouds,The god-like Sun, arrayedIn blinding splendour, swiftly rose,And looked athwart the glade;The sleepy dingo watched ...
Ned the Larrikin (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SONG that is bitter with grief-a ballad as pale as the lightThat comes with the fall of the leaf, ...
Sydney Exhibition Cantata (Henry Kendall Poems)
Songs of morning, with your breathSing the darkness now to death;Radiant river, beaming bay,Fair as Summer, shine to-day;Flying torrent, falling ...
Mary Rivers (Henry Kendall Poems)
Path beside the silver waters, flashing in October's sun-Walk, by green and golden margins where the sister streamlets run-Twenty shining ...
Persia (Henry Kendall Poems)
I am writing this song at the close Of a beautiful day of the springIn a dell where the daffodil grows By ...
How the Melbourne Cup was Won (Henry Kendall Poems)
In the beams of a beautiful day, Made soft by a breeze from the sea,The horses were started away, The fleet-footed thirty ...
Names Upon a Stone: (Inscribed to G. L. Fagan, Esq.) (Henry Kendall Poems)
ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea A fierce north-easter breaks,And makes a thunder on the lea- A whiteness of the lakes.Here, while ...
Hy-Brasil (Henry Kendall Poems)
"Daughter," said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea,"Turn thy face towards the sunset — turn thy face and ...
Rizpah (Henry Kendall Poems)
SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,To Jesse's mighty son: "My Lord, O King,I, halting hard by Gibeon's ...
The Helmsman (Henry Kendall Poems)
LIKE one who meets a staggering blow, The stout old ship doth reel,And waters vast go seething past-But will it last, ...
Euterpe (Henry Kendall Poems)
CHILD of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me,Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying ...
Araluen (Henry Kendall Poems)
Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deepMosses where our little darling, Araluen, lies asleep.Put the ...
In Memoriam: Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
SHALL he, on whom the fair lord, Delphicus, Turned gracious eyes and countenance of shine,Be left to lie without a wreath ...
Sitting by the Fire (Henry Kendall Poems)
Barren Age and withered World!Oh! the dying leaves,Like a drizzling rain,Falling round the roof —Pattering on the pane!Frosty Age and ...
James Lionel Michael (Henry Kendall Poems)
BE HIS rest the rest he sought: Calm and deep.Let no wayward word or thought Vex his sleep.Peace-the peace that no man ...
In Memorium: Adam Lindsay Gordon (Henry Kendall Poems)
AT rest! Hard by the margin of that seaWhose sounds are mingled with his noble verse,Now lies the shell that ...
Mount Erebus: (A Fragment) (Henry Kendall Poems)
A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire,Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublimeBy reason of that lordly solitudeWhich dwells for ever ...
To Damascus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beatOn the brittle, bright stubble,And the camels fell back from the swords of ...
Passing Away (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE SPIRIT of beautiful faces, The light on the forehead of Love,And the spell of past visited places, And the songs and ...
The Waterfall (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE SONG of the water Doomed ever to roam,A beautiful exile, Afar from its home.The cliffs on the mountain, The grand and the ...
Galatea (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SILVER slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses,And fiery cones, and sultry spurs, and swarthy pits ...
Australia Vindex (Henry Kendall Poems)
Who cometh from fields of the south With raiment of weeping and woe,And a cry of the heart in her mouth, And ...
The Late W. V. Wild, Esq. (Henry Kendall Poems)
SAD FACES came round, and I dreamily said "Though the harp of my country now slumbers,Some hand will pass o'er it, ...
Watching (Henry Kendall Poems)
Like a beautiful face looking ever at meA pure bright moon cometh over the sea;And I stand on the crags, ...
Campaspe (Henry Kendall Poems)
Turn from the ways of this Woman! Campaspe we call her by name —She is fairer than flowers of the ...
To Henry Halloran (Henry Kendall Poems)
YOU KNOW I left my forest home full loth,And those weird ways I knew so well and long,Dishevelled with their ...
September in Australia (Henry Kendall Poems)
Grey Winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest,And, behold, for repayment,September comes in with the wind of the WestAnd the ...
From the Forests (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where in a green, moist, myrtle dellThe torrent voice rings strongAnd clear, above a star-bright well,I write this woodland song.The ...
The Ballad of Tanna (Henry Kendall Poems)
She knelt by the dead, in her passionate grief,Beneath a weird forest of Tanna;She kissed the stern brow of her ...