To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
Henry Kendall Poems on Faces (97 Poems)
Our Jack (Henry Kendall Poems)
Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night,Twelve years ago, the Spirit of the StormSobbed round our camp. A ...
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 ...
Orara (Henry Kendall Poems)
The strong sob of the chafing stream That seaward fights its way Down crags of glitter, dells of gleam, Is ...
At Her Window (Henry Kendall Poems)
To-night a strong south wind in thunder singsAcross the city. Now by salt wet flats,And ridges perished with the breath ...
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 ...
Christmas Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
Phantom streams were in the distance — mocking lights of lake and pool —Ghosts of trees of soft green lustre ...
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 ...
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, ...
Cooranbean (Henry Kendall Poems)
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
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 ...
Merope (Henry Kendall Poems)
FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes-in the face of the splendidSix of the sisters-the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright,Merope ...
Cui Bono? (Henry Kendall Poems)
A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night, And the Summer comes-with the shining noons,With the ripple of leaves, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Hut by the Black Swamp (Henry Kendall Poems)
Now comes the fierce north-easter, bound About with clouds and racks of rain,And dry, dead leaves go whirling round In rings of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lilith (Henry Kendall Poems)
Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing Falters because of the vision it sees;Voice that is not of ...
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 ...
Wamberal (Henry Kendall Poems)
Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings,Like the song that once I loved so, softly ...
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, ...
Ella with the Shining Hair (Henry Kendall Poems)
Through many a fragrant cedar grove A darkened water moans;And there pale Memory stood with Love Amongst the moss-green stones.The shimmering sunlight ...
Charles Harpur (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping,Are swift with wind, and white with gleams, And hoarse with ...
Ghost Glen (Henry Kendall Poems)
"Shut your ears, stranger, or turn from Ghost Glen now,For the paths are grown over, untrodden by men now;Shut your ...
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 ...
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 ...