The Australiad (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
Midnight,-musical and splendid,- And the Old Year's life is ended,-And the New, "born in the purple," babe yet crowned, among us ...
Sing us the Land of the Southern Sea,- The land we have called our own;Tell us what harvest there shall be From ...
A little way farther to guide thee I goWhere the footing is firm and the waters are low;Then we part, ...
The coup d'etat is blotted out With fresher blood, with blacker crime,-As midnight horrors put to rout The vaguer ghosts of twilight-time."Greeting ...
'Tis a new thing for Australia that the waters to her bearOne who seeks not strength of sunshine, or the ...
My youth was passing, Sire, whilst you amongThe cradle-wrappings slept; my morning-songSung o'er your pillow. Winds of heaven have thrownUs ...
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