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 ...
Henry Kendall Poems on God (49 Poems)
Doubting (Henry Kendall Poems)
A Brother wandered forth with me, Beside a barren beach:He harped on things beyond the sea, And out of reach.He hinted once ...
Daphne (Henry Kendall Poems)
Daphne! Ladon's daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light,Take thy thoughts of fairest texture, weave them into words of white ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Caroline Chisholm (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE PRIESTS and the Levites went forth, to feast at the courts of the Kings;They were vain of their greatness ...
Drowned at Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves,Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ...
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 ...
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, ...
Faith in God (Henry Kendall Poems)
HAVE faith in God. For whosoever lists To calm conviction in these days of strife,Will learn that in this steadfast stand ...
Sutherland’s Grave (Henry Kendall Poems)
ALL NIGHT long the sea out yonder-all night long the wailful sea,Vext of winds and many thunders, seeketh rest unceasingly!Seeketh ...
Syrinx (Henry Kendall Poems)
A HEAP of low, dark, rocky coast, Unknown to foot or feather!A sea-voice moaning like a ghost; And fits of fiery weather!The ...
Extempore Lines (Henry Kendall Poems)
A MORNING crowns the Western hill, A day begins to reign,A sun awakes o'er distant seas- Shall never sleep again.The world is ...
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 ...
Under the Figtree (Henry Kendall Poems)
Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come,With soft low songs, and dear old tales, familiar to ...
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 ...
Outre Mer (Henry Kendall Poems)
I see, as one in dreaming,A broad, bright, quiet sea;Beyond it lies a haven —The only home for me.Some men ...