The House Delirious (Leon Gellert Poems)
Come in and tread thou quietlyWithin the duskiness.This twilight thou dost seeIs but the moment passing. Make no guessUpon these ...
Leon Gellert Poems (71 Poems)
Fever! (Leon Gellert Poems)
Everything seems lost and gone.The world seems void; and I aloneTo mourn its emptiness, that am too weak tomourn:To mope ...
Lemnos Harbour (Leon Gellert Poems)
The island sleeps,-but it has no delightFor em, to whom that sleep has been unkind.My thoughts are long of what ...
The Wrecked Aeroplane (Leon Gellert Poems)
Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,That liest prone with white wings torn,And, like some giant prehistoric bird, with throb-bing soundDoest beat ...
Bluebeard’s First Wife (Leon Gellert Poems)
I lie by the garden wall,Buried and all alone;The brown camellias fallOne by one on the stone.Buried and all alone,Because ...
Dejection (Leon Gellert Poems)
Point thy battered prow to the dark shoreThou hoary son of Erebus, and dip thy bladesIn the slow-moving marge, for ...
The Soul Forsaken (Leon Gellert Poems)
Head-bowed I stood before the Gates ofGod,And pleaded starvingly;The Great Eye would not see;And cold with hopeless tears again I ...
The Hawk (Leon Gellert Poems)
Swoop! Swoop!From dizzy skies thou singestTo the shining earth.To where unseenAmid the greenUntimely death thou bringestTo unseeing mirth.Upon a dark ...
Mockery (Leon Gellert Poems)
I met my love a-weeping,Weeping in the night-tide pale;Her head among the lily bloom,Weeping by an empty tomb-An unshut tomb.I ...
The Last To Leave (Leon Gellert Poems)
The guns were silent, and the silent hillshad bowed their grasses to a gentle breezeI gazed upon the vales and ...
Rendezvous (Leon Gellert Poems)
Long before the dawn breaksWith a bird's cry,I'll be hustling on the windOut where you lie -Hurrying to our rendezvousUnder ...
The Diggers (Leon Gellert Poems)
The diggers are digging, and digging deep,They're digging and singing,And I'm asleep.They're digging and singing and swiftly they're swingingThe flying ...
The True Dawn (Leon Gellert Poems)
Go, false dawn, that cometh as a childWith yellow curls!Hast never known the wildUnhallowed cry of night!Go hence!I did not ...
The Dead (Leon Gellert Poems)
These there were, who lost their everything.Gave all! And left the earth a vaster sphereIn memories: a song or two ...
The Blind Man (Leon Gellert Poems)
Within a corner of this windowed roomHe sits, and seldom speaks, and seldom moves.Forever left within eternal gloom,He thinks of those ...
The Gecko (Leon Gellert Poems)
The Gecko lying on his stoneIs always very much alone,Nor is the reason hard to traceBy those who've seen its ...
The Consumptive (Leon Gellert Poems)
The stars, the fields, will know him never- more;his friends, his trees, the restless swerving sea.'Three days to live,' they said ...
The Return (Leon Gellert Poems)
I have come home again!Dawn is a dream to meLying here, soon to beClinging, awaking;See where 'tis breakingMockingly, mistily!I have ...
The Advice Of Treachery (Leon Gellert Poems)
This well-feigned trance, this still and stupored sleepis aptly timed, and nobly fits the scheme.The cloud-encircled Sword with Night may creepBeside ...
The Death (Leon Gellert Poems)
I'm hit. It's come at last, I feel a smartOf needles in ..My God .. I'm hit again!No pain this ...
The Cripple (Leon Gellert Poems)
He totters round and dangles those odd shapesThat were his legs. His eyes are never dim.He brags about his fame ...
The Attack at Dawn (Leon Gellert Poems)
'At every cost,' they said, 'it must be done.'They told us in the early afternoon.We sit and wait the coming ...
A Night Attack (Leon Gellert Poems)
Be still. The bleeding night is in suspenseOf watchful agony and coloured thought,And every beating vein and trembling sense,Long-tired with ...
The Change (Leon Gellert Poems)
Last year I heard the songs of birds,And heard the trumpets of the bees.I caught the winding river's words,And clutched ...
The Australian Muse (Leon Gellert Poems)
Uplift thy lyre, and touch the tender strings;But leave unsung the epics of thy landTil thou and time have made ...
The Invocation Of Jealousy (Leon Gellert Poems)
The conquered world is bowed and worshipful,And lovely Peace smooth-gowned in lightest greyCries, "War is Dead' and treads upon it's ...
Red (Leon Gellert Poems)
Place that bayonet in my hand,And fill this pouch with lead;Show me the blood and leave me, and let meStand By ...
The Coming Of War (Leon Gellert Poems)
Strong from the hills it comes, and flowing rivers;Swift from the waters of the rising seas;Swift on the chilling heart that ...
The Husband (Leon Gellert Poems)
Yes, I have slain, and taken moving lifeFrom bodies. Yea! And laughed upon the taking;And, having slain, have whetted still ...
The Influence Of Lust (Leon Gellert Poems)
With padded feet from out his own dark denComes smiling Lust, once fair and hard to please,But now long overworked with ...