Kiama (Henry Kendall Poems)
Towards the hills of JamberooSome few fantastic shadows haste,Uplit with firesLike castle spiresOutshining through a mirage waste.Behold, a mournful glory ...
Henry Kendall Poems on Faces (97 Poems)
On A Cattle Track (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where the strength of dry thunder splits hill-rocks asunder,And the shouts of the desert-wind break,By the gullies of deepness and ...
Sydney Harbour (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where Hornby, like a mighty fallen star,Burns through the darkness with a splendid ringOf tenfold light, and where the awful ...
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 ...
Rose Lorraine (Henry Kendall Poems)
Sweet water-moons, blown into lightsOf flying gold on pool and creek,And many sounds and many sightsOf younger days are back ...
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 ...
Footfalls (Henry Kendall Poems)
The embers were blinking and clinking away,The casement half open was thrown;There was nothing but cloud on the skirts of ...
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 ...
The Curlew Song (Henry Kendall Poems)
The viewless blast flies moaning past,Away to the forest trees,Where giant pines and leafless vinesBend 'neath the wandering breeze!From ferny ...
Campaspe (Henry Kendall Poems)
Turn from the ways of this Woman! Campaspe we call her by name —She is fairer than flowers of the ...
Kooroora (Henry Kendall Poems)
The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark,A torrent beneath them is leaping,And the wind goes about like a ...
Moss on a Wall (Henry Kendall Poems)
Dim dreams it hath of singing ways,Of far-off woodland water-heads,And shining ends of April daysAmongst the yellow runnel-beds.Stoop closer to ...
Mountain Moss (Henry Kendall Poems)
IT LIES amongst the sleeping stones, Far down the hidden mountain glade;And past its brink the torrent moans For ever in a ...
At Dusk (Henry Kendall Poems)
AT DUSK, like flowers that shun the day, Shy thoughts from dim recesses break,And plead for words I dare not say For ...
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 ...
Achan (Henry Kendall Poems)
HATH he not followed a star through the darkness,Ye people who sit at the table of Jephthah?Oh! turn with the ...
Lost in the Flood (Henry Kendall Poems)
WHEN God drave the ruthless waters From our cornfields to the sea,Came she where our wives and daughters Sobbed their thanks on ...
Etheline (Henry Kendall Poems)
The heart that once was rich with light,And happy in your grace,Now lieth cold beneath the scornThat gathers on your ...
Aboriginal Death Song (Henry Kendall Poems)
Feet of the flying, and fierce Tops of the sharp-headed spear,Hard by the thickets that pierce, Lo! they are nimble and near.Women ...
The Last Of His Tribe (Henry Kendall Poems)
He crouches, and buries his face on his knees,And hides in the dark of his hair;For he cannot look up ...
Evening Hymn (Henry Kendall Poems)
The crag-pent breezes sob and moan where hidden waters glide;And twilight wanders round the earth with slow and shadowy stride.The ...
Illa Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
A strong sea-wind flies up and singsAcross the blown-wet border,Whose stormy echo runs and ringsLike bells in wild disorder.Fierce breath ...
The Earth Laments for Day (Henry Kendall Poems)
THERE'S music wafting on the air, The evening winds are sighingAmong the trees-and yonder stream Is mournfully replying,Lamenting loud the sunny light That ...
The Bereaved One (Henry Kendall Poems)
She sleeps-and I see through a shadowy haze, Where the hopes of the past and the dreams that I cherishedIn the ...
Cleone (Henry Kendall Poems)
Sing her a song of the sun: Fill it with tones of the stream, -Echoes of waters that run Glad with the ...
Lurline (Inscribed to Madame Lucy Escott.) (Henry Kendall Poems)
As you glided and glided before us that time, A mystical, magical maiden,We fancied we looked on a face from the ...
Ulmarra (Henry Kendall Poems)
Alone - alone!With a heart like a stone,She maketh her moanAt the feet of the trees,With her face on her ...
The Barcoo (Henry Kendall Poems)
From the runs of the Narran, wide-dotted with sheep,And loud with the lowing of cattle,We speed for a land where ...
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 ...