Euterpe: A Cantanta (Henry Kendall Poems)
Argument.Hail to thee, Sound!-The power of Euterpe in all the scenes of life-in religion; in works of charity; in soothing ...
Henry Kendall Poems on Brothers (29 Poems)
The Glen of Arrawatta (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gustsAre beating round the windows in the cold,With sullen sobs of rain, ...
The Fate of the Explorers (A Fragment) (Henry Kendall Poems)
Set your face toward the darkness - tell of deserts weird and wide,Where unshaken woods are huddled, and low, languid ...
Peter the Piccaninny (Henry Kendall Poems)
He has a name which can't be brought Within the sphere of metre;But, as he's Peter by report, I'll trot him out ...
Fainting by the Way (Henry Kendall Poems)
Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering miles and miles away,Where the south wind seldom wanders and the winters will not ...
Hunted Down (Henry Kendall Poems)
Two years had the tiger, whose shape was that of a sinister man,Been out since the night of escape — ...
Leichhardt (Henry Kendall Poems)
LORDLY harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep,Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the ...
In Memory of Edward Butler (Henry Kendall Poems)
A voice of grave, deep emphasis Is in the woods to-night;No sound of radiant day is this, No cadence of the light.Here ...
Foreshadowings (Henry Kendall Poems)
FIFTEEN miles and then the harbour! Here we cannot choose but stand,Faces thrust towards the day-break, listening for our native ...
By the Cliffs of the Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
Kiama Revisited (Henry Kendall Poems)
WE STOOD by the window and hearkenedTo the voice of the runnels sea-driven,While, northward, the mountain-heads darkened,Girt round with the ...
Christmas Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
Phantom streams were in the distance — mocking lights of lake and pool —Ghosts of trees of soft green lustre ...
Coogee (Henry Kendall Poems)
Sing the song of wave-worn Coogee, Coogee in the distance white,With its jags and points disrupted, gaps and fractures fringed ...
For Ever (Henry Kendall Poems)
OUT of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing, "Oh, whither?"A Soul that hath wasted its chances Floats on the limitless ether.Lost in ...
Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook (Henry Kendall Poems)
The First Attempt to Reach the ShoreWhere is the painter who shall paint for you,My Austral brothers, with a pencil ...
The Opossum-Hunt (Henry Kendall Poems)
Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting With the winds above them fleeting, hurry to the distant ...
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four (Henry Kendall Poems)
I HEAR no footfall beating through the dark, A lonely gust is loitering at the pane;There is no sound within these ...
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 Wild Kangaroo (Henry Kendall Poems)
The rain-clouds have gone to the deep —The East like a furnace doth glow;And the day-spring is flooding the steep,And ...
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 ...
Urara (Henry Kendall Poems)
Euroka, go over the tops of the hill,For the ~Death-clouds~ have passed us to-day,And we'll cry in the dark for ...
God Help our Men at Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
The wild night comes like an owl to its lair,The black clouds follow fast,And the sun-gleams die, and the lightnings ...
Sunset (Henry Kendall Poems)
It is better, O day, that you go to your rest, For you go like a guest who was loth to ...
Amongst the Roses (Henry Kendall Poems)
I walked through a Forest, beneath the hot noon,On Etheline calling and calling!One said: "She will hear you and come ...
By the Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Caves of the sea have been troubled to-day With the water which whitens, and widens, and fills;And a boat with ...
Clari (Henry Kendall Poems)
Too cold, O my brother, too cold for my wifeIs the Beauty you showed me this morning:Nor yet have I ...
Sedan (Henry Kendall Poems)
Another battle! and the sounds have rolled By many a gloomy gorge and wasted plainO'er huddled hills and mountains manifold, Like winds ...
News of War (Henry Kendall Poems)
Today, while yet the rumour filled the street,I left your faces troubled with the thoughtOf brothers to a bodeful fury ...
To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall (Henry Kendall Poems)
TO-NIGHT the sea sends up a gulf-like sound,And ancient rhymes are ringing in my head,The many lilts of song we ...