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 Water (28 Poems)
The Voyage of Telegonus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
Leaves from Australian Forests (12 Sonnets) (Henry Kendall Poems)
IA Mountain SpringPeace hath an altar there. The sounding feet Of thunder and the 'wildering wings of rainAgainst fire-rifted summits flash ...
Mooni (Henry Kendall Poems)
AH, to be by Mooni now! Where the great dark hills of wonder, Scarred with storm and cleft asunder By ...
Beyond Kerguelen (Henry Kendall Poems)
DOWN in the South, by the waste without sail on it- Far from the zone of the blossom and tree- ...
The Wail in the Native Oak (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine,Beats beneath the twisted fern-roots and the drenched and ...
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 ...
On the Paroo (Henry Kendall Poems)
AS WHEN the strong stream of a wintering seaRolls round our coast, with bodeful breaks of storm,And swift salt rain, ...
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 ...
Pytheas (Henry Kendall Poems)
Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea-Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cooranbean (Henry Kendall Poems)
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Waterfall (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE SONG of the water Doomed ever to roam,A beautiful exile, Afar from its home.The cliffs on the mountain, The grand and the ...
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 ...
In The Valley (Henry Kendall Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On a Baby Buried by the Hawkesbury (Henry Kendall Poems)
A grace that was lent for a very few hours,By the bountiful Spirit above us;She sleeps like a flower in ...
A Mountain Spring (Henry Kendall Poems)
Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feetOf thunder and the wildering wings of rainAgainst fire-rifted summits flash and beat,And ...