The Australian Emigrant (Henry Kendall Poems)
How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray,When Australia first rose in the distance away,As welcome to us on the ...
How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray,When Australia first rose in the distance away,As welcome to us on the ...
Dear sober emptyers o' the glass!Behold your goddess -- wife or lass, De'il hae me gin I ken;But weel I wat ...
The smallest flower beside my path, In loveliness of bloom, Some element of comfort hath To rid my heart of gloom; But these, of ...
AFTER THE BATTLE OF BADE, BENEATH THE CANOPY OF HEAVEN.MAHOMET (Speaks).LET the foeman sorrow o'er his dead,Ne'er will they return ...
Written on Board the Prison Ship Medway, off the Island of St. Paul's,March, 1825.COME, heavenly Muse, descendFrom Zion's holy hill:Thy ...
THESE were my friends; Strachey, you did not know them,For they were simple, unaspiring men ;No ordinary wind of chance ...
He was hit back of the head for a haul of $15,a Diner's Club Card and picture of his daughter ...
COME back and bring my life again That went with thee beyond my will!Restore me that which makes me man Or leaves ...
I CAME upon a pool that shone,Clear, emerald-like, among the hills,That seemed old wizards round a stoneOf magic that a ...
Wish not, dear friends, my pain away - Wish me a wise and thankful heart,With GOD, in all my griefs, to ...
Nay ;—ask not for a mirthful air,— I ne'er will sing of joy again ;Dejected—driven to despair— As I for ever must ...
IThou sit'st among the sunny silencesOf terraced hills and woodland galleries,Thou utterance of all calm melodies,Thou lutanist of Earth's most ...
Thy happy years of deep affection past, Cartouche! our faithful friend, rest here-at last. We loved thee for a love man scarce ...
Wake! wake! friends of your kind!There's a Demon, a Demon, abroad!Ye'll scent him in every breath of the wind;—Around him ...
THOUGH young no more, we still would dreamOf beauty's dear deluding wiles;The leagues of life to graybeards seemShorter than boyhood's ...
OH poet, to my lone and swelling heartHow gently comes the message sent by thine;It speaks to me of all ...
I.Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die,Perchance were death indeed!-Constantia, turn!In thy dark eyes a power like ...
We are the slaves of the guns,Serfs to the dominant things;Ours are the eyes and the ears,And the brains of ...
As a guest who may not stayLong and sad farewells to sayGlides with smiling face away,Of the sweetness and the ...
There is a book, which we may call(Its excellence is such)Alone a library, though small;The ladies thumb it much.Words none, ...
The Beautiful City! ForeverIts rapturous praises resound;We fain would behold it-- but neverA glimpse of its dory is found:We slacken ...
John McKeen, in his rusty dress,His loosened collar, and swarthy throat,His face unshaven, and none the less,His hearty laugh and ...
The mounted disk of eboniteHas whirled before, nor whirled in vain;Rowland of Troy, that doughty knight,Convection currents did obtainIn such ...
Glimmers gray the leafless thicketClose beside my garden gate,Where, so light, from post to picketHops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;Who, with ...
Your hands--they are strangely fair!O Fair--for the jewels that sparkle there,--Fair--for the witchery of the spellThat ivory keys alone can ...
FROM HIS MISTRESS.IN awful solitude, in direful chains,Where deep despair and sad reflection reigns,If yet thy breast another's woes can ...
Look in the mirror. Let us both look.Here is my naked body.Apparently you like it,I have no reason to.Who bound ...
He has five children, I'm papato a hundred pencils.I bought the chair he sat infrom a book of chairs,staplers and ...
Libera nos, Domine — Deliver us, O Lord,Not only from British dependence, but also,FROM a junto that labor for absolute ...
Strike hands, young men!We know not whenDeath or disaster comes,Mightier than battle-drumsTo summon us away.Death bids us say farewellTo all ...
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