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 ...
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 ...
CHILD of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me,Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying ...
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping,Are swift with wind, and white with gleams, And hoarse with ...
Because this man fulfilled his days,Like one who walks with steadfast gazeAverted from forbidden ways With lures of fair, false flowerage ...
Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deepMosses where our little darling, Araluen, lies asleep.Put the ...
Daphne! Ladon's daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light,Take thy thoughts of fairest texture, weave them into words of white ...
Barren Age and withered World!Oh! the dying leaves,Like a drizzling rain,Falling round the roof —Pattering on the pane!Frosty Age and ...
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 ...
LOW as a lute, my love, beneath the callOf storm, I hear a melancholy wind;The memorably mournful wind of yoreWhich ...
THE SPIRIT of beautiful faces, The light on the forehead of Love,And the spell of past visited places, And the songs and ...
Sweet water-moons, blown into lightsOf flying gold on pool and creek,And many sounds and many sightsOf younger days are back ...
A SILVER slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses,And fiery cones, and sultry spurs, and swarthy pits ...
Who cometh from fields of the south With raiment of weeping and woe,And a cry of the heart in her mouth, And ...
SAD FACES came round, and I dreamily said "Though the harp of my country now slumbers,Some hand will pass o'er it, ...
The embers were blinking and clinking away,The casement half open was thrown;There was nothing but cloud on the skirts of ...
Said the yellow-haired Spirit of Spring To the white-footed Spirit of Snow,"On the wings of the tempest take wing, And leave me ...
Like a beautiful face looking ever at meA pure bright moon cometh over the sea;And I stand on the crags, ...
Turn from the ways of this Woman! Campaspe we call her by name —She is fairer than flowers of the ...
YOU KNOW I left my forest home full loth,And those weird ways I knew so well and long,Dishevelled with their ...
HAVE faith in God. For whosoever lists To calm conviction in these days of strife,Will learn that in this steadfast stand ...
AT DUSK, like flowers that shun the day, Shy thoughts from dim recesses break,And plead for words I dare not say For ...
ALL NIGHT long the sea out yonder-all night long the wailful sea,Vext of winds and many thunders, seeketh rest unceasingly!Seeketh ...
HATH he not followed a star through the darkness,Ye people who sit at the table of Jephthah?Oh! turn with the ...
WHEN God drave the ruthless waters From our cornfields to the sea,Came she where our wives and daughters Sobbed their thanks on ...
AH, often do I wait and watch, And look up, straining through the RealWith longing eyes, my friend, to catch Faint glimpses ...
Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come,With soft low songs, and dear old tales, familiar to ...
Sing her a song of the sun: Fill it with tones of the stream, -Echoes of waters that run Glad with the ...
Alone - alone!With a heart like a stone,She maketh her moanAt the feet of the trees,With her face on her ...
With sweet Regret - (the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) -We often turn our homeless eyes to scenes ...
When underneath the brown dead grass My weary bones are laid,I hope I shall not see the glass At ninety in the ...
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