Prefatory Sonnets (Henry Kendall Poems)
I.I purposed once to take my pen and write,Not songs, like some, tormented and awry *With passion, but a cunning ...
Henry Kendall Poems (183 Poems)
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 Girl I Left Behind Me (Henry Kendall Poems)
With sweet Regret - (the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) -We often turn our homeless eyes to scenes ...
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 ...
Deniehy’s Dream (Henry Kendall Poems)
JUST when the western light Flickered out dim,Flushing the mountain-side, Summit and rim,A last, low, lingering gleamFell on a yellow stream,And then ...
When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass (Henry Kendall Poems)
When underneath the brown dead grass My weary bones are laid,I hope I shall not see the glass At ninety in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The River and the Hill (Henry Kendall Poems)
And they shook their sweetness out in their sleepOn the brink of that beautiful stream,But it wandered along with a ...
Hymn of Praise (Henry Kendall Poems)
Encompassed by the psalm of hill and stream,By hymns august with their majestic theme,Here in the evening of exalted daysTo ...
Geraldine (Henry Kendall Poems)
My head is filled with olden rhymes beside this moaning sea,But many and many a day has gone since I ...
Waiting and Wishing (Henry Kendall Poems)
I loiter by this surging sea,Here, by this surging, sooming sea,Here, by this wailing, wild-faced sea,Dreaming through the dreamy night;Yearning ...
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 ...
A Birthday Trifle (Henry Kendall Poems)
Here in this gold-green evening end, While air is soft and sky is clear,What tender message shall I send To her I ...
Silent Tears (Henry Kendall Poems)
What bitter sorrow courses down Yon mourner's faded cheek?Those scalding drops betray a grief Within, too full to speak.Outspoken words cannot express The ...
The Ivy on the Wall (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE VERDANT ivy clings around Yon moss be-mantled wall,As if it sought to hide the stones, That crumbling soon must fall:That relic ...
Song of the Cattle Hunters (Henry Kendall Poems)
While the morning light beams on the fern-matted streams,And the water-pools flash in its glow,Down the ridges we fly, with ...
Blue Mountain Pioneers (Henry Kendall Poems)
The dauntless three! For twenty days and nightsThese heroes battled with the haughty heights;For twenty spaces of the star and ...
After the Hunt (Henry Kendall Poems)
Underneath the windy mountain walls Forth we rode, an eager band,By the surges and the verges and the gorges, Till the night ...
Clari (Henry Kendall Poems)
Too cold, O my brother, too cold for my wifeIs the Beauty you showed me this morning:Nor yet have I ...
Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes (Henry Kendall Poems)
Oh, tell me, ye breezes that spring from the west, Oh, tell me, ere passing away,If Leichhardt's bold spirit has fled ...
Deniehy’s Lament (Henry Kendall Poems)
SPIRIT of Loveliness! Heart of my heart!Flying so far from me, Heart of my heart!Above the eastern hill, I know ...
Sedan (Henry Kendall Poems)
Another battle! and the sounds have rolled By many a gloomy gorge and wasted plainO'er huddled hills and mountains manifold, Like winds ...
The Old Year (Henry Kendall Poems)
IT PASSED like the breath of the night-wind away,It fled like a mist at the dawn of the day;It lasted ...
The Muse of Australia (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts,And the torrent leaps down to the surges,I have followed her, ...
In the Depths of a Forest (Henry Kendall Poems)
In the depths of a Forest secluded and wild, The night voices whisper in passionate numbers;And I'm leaning again, as I ...
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 ...
News of War (Henry Kendall Poems)
Today, while yet the rumour filled the street,I left your faces troubled with the thoughtOf brothers to a bodeful fury ...
To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall (Henry Kendall Poems)
TO-NIGHT the sea sends up a gulf-like sound,And ancient rhymes are ringing in my head,The many lilts of song we ...