Verses – III (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,That every stone i' the land had got a name.Of New South Wales ...
Bound For Kamtschatka, Now Lying In The Harbour Of PortJackson.HAIL! Chieftain, from the distant landsThat own the Czar's imperial reign;With ...
On Riding Alone by Moonlight over the Blue Mountains, whenReturning from Bathurst. - June, 1826.WHILE the bright moon ascends the ...
'Tis strange to live a year or two in SydneyAnd get acquaint with all its Nonpareils;To dine with people of ...
THOUGH every power on earth combinesTo do his high command,God can effect his vast designsEven by the feeblest hand:The weakest ...
YE kindreds of the earth,Come, sing a nation's birth!Australia's SunHas risen with orient lightTo chase the shades of night;Aye! and ...
WHEN the trade wind blows fairAlong the waveless sea,Then lives the sailor, freed from care,In dull monotony.Where'er he turns his ...
The sun may shine and the favouring galeBlow fair as fair may be,When the mariner hoists the milk-white sail,And joyfully ...
On the Death of Commodore Sir James Brisbane, C.B., of HisMajesty's Ship Warspite, Who Died in Sydney, 19th December, 1826.WHY, ...
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