La Douce Chimere (Anne Hunter Poems)
SWEET Fancy, let me sing thy praise,Thou kind companion of my days,Through infancy and youth;O let me, in a riper ...
SWEET Fancy, let me sing thy praise,Thou kind companion of my days,Through infancy and youth;O let me, in a riper ...
IAnother life from Life's Fountain,Hath flowed through thy life into being,And entered a deathless existence.The sun may go down in ...
My tale to-night is full of woe,I would that it were one of gladness;I would not thrill your hearts, you ...
No life in earth, or air, or sky; The sunbeams, broken silently, On the bared rocks around me lie,— Cold ...
The east wind gently blows, With cloudy skies and rain. 'Twixt man and wife should ne'er be strife, ...
I poured out a tumbler of Claret,Of course with intention to drink,And, holding it up in the sunlight,I paused for ...
When the world is fast asleep, Along the midnight skies—As though it were a wandering cloud— The ghostly ...
Come all Australia's sons to me — A hero has been slainAnd cowardly butchered in his sleep ...
"TO put new shingles on old roofs; To give old women wadded skirts; To treat premonitory coughs With ...
Give us a call! We keep good beer,Wine, and brandy, and whiskey here;Our doors are open to boys and men,And ...
To charitable deeds I'm not addicted, For sentiment I do not care a prune,And yet I weep at poverty ...
Poverty clad in its threadbare coat, Feeling its pocket for pence,Pitiful, patient, sorrowing, sad, Unknowing any ...
I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an ...
HARSH Poverty! why dost thou lourOn this my dwelling place?Why cast on me thy looks so sour?Have I not always ...
AIR--_"The Posie."_ Eliza was a bonnie lass, and oh! she lo'ed me weel, Sic love as canna find ...
The lady what comes up to our house t' wash Is awfully poor, an' she's got Three babies t' care ...
November: 1674Cloked in gray threadbare poverty, and blind,Age-weak, and desolate, and beloved of God;High-heartedness to long repulse resign'd,Yet bating not ...
Today I met a happy man Greeting the glad new year.About his face the sunbeams ranAnd danced, as straightaway he ...
A sturdy fellow, with a sunburnt face,And thews and sinews of a giant mould;A genial mind, that harboured nothing base,-A ...
Come, pass about the bowl to me, A health to our distress?d king! Though we're in hold, let cups go ...
The earth rolls on through empty space, its journey's never done;It's entered for a starry race throughout the kingdom come.And, ...
Don't mind being broke at all,When I can say that what I hadWas spent for toys for kiddies smallAnd that ...
We've got another mouth to feed,From out our little store;To satisfy another's needIs now my daily chore.A growing family is ...
(With Apologies)HOW dear to my heart is the bank roll departed,The five-spots and tens in the strong rubber band,The yellow ...
(The Children's Hospital) The little mother to many I saw through the open door, And her patient face, on that ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
299Your Riches - taught me - Poverty.Myself - a MillionaireIn little Wealths, as Girls could boastTill broad as Buenos Ayre ...
ILL-fated youth! thy ardent soulAim'd at the heights of deathless fame,Sprang from beneath the world's controul,And seiz'd unknown a poet's ...
O hearken, all ye little weeds That lie beneath the snow,(So low, dear hearts, in poverty so low!) ...
"Ruin seize thee, ruthless man! Confusion on thy steps attend; Thy life exceed a mortal's span, And terror haunt thee ...
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