The Old Bush Road (Grace Jennings Carmichael Poems)
DEAR old road, wheel-worn and broken, Winding through the forest green,Barred with shadows and with sunshine, Misty vistas drawn between.Grim, scarred bluegums ...
DEAR old road, wheel-worn and broken, Winding through the forest green,Barred with shadows and with sunshine, Misty vistas drawn between.Grim, scarred bluegums ...
The crocus rose from her snowy bedAs she felt the spring's caresses,And the willow from her graceful headShook out her ...
Since man has been articulate,Mechanical, improvidently wise,(Servant of Fate),He has not understood the little criesAnd foreign conversations of the smallDelightful ...
Never, surely, was holier manThan Ambrose, since the world began;With diet spare and raiment thinHe shielded himself from the father ...
Oh, I am the siren, the siren of the sea, The sea, the wondrous sea, that lies forevermore before;I stand a ...
Father is building a new house, but I've had one given to me for my own;Brick red, with a white ...
I WALK by Mother AraxWith faltering steps and slow,And memories of past agesSeek in the waters' flow.But they run dark ...
"Let not your hearts be troubled, but confide"In me as ye confide in God; I go"A mansion for my followers ...
The rabbit's ears are flattened and he's squattin' scared and still,Ag'inst the dripping cedar; and the quail below the hillAre ...
Era.m cosselhatz, senhor,vos c'avetz saber e sen:una domna.m det s'amor,c'ai amada lonjamen;mas eras sai de vertatqu'ilh a autr'amic privat,ni anc ...
Ho! workers of the old time styledThe Gentle Craft of Leather!Young brothers of the ancient guild,Stand forth once more together!Call ...
See that fallen Princess! her splendor is gone-- The pomp of her morning is over; Her day-star of pleasure refuses to dawn, She ...
To God our strength sing loud, and clear,Sing loud to God our King,To Jacobs God, that all may hearLoud acclamations ...
They come!--Be firm--in silence rally!The long-knives our retreat have found!Hark!--their tramp is in the valley,And they hem the forest round!The ...
The sea is mighty, but a mightier swaysHis restless billows. Thou, whose hands have scoopedHis boundless gulfs and built his ...
Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark ofthe year. Go in the bright blaze of Autumn's equinox.Carry protection ...
There's a wood-way winding high,Roofed far up with light-green flicker,Save one midmost star of sky.Underfoot 'tis all pale brownWith the ...
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
When the earliest south winds softly blowOver the brown earth, and the waning snowIn the last days of the discrowned ...
well I wanted to braid my hairbathe and bedeck myself so fineso fully aforethought foryour pleasuresee:I wanted to travel and ...
Many a day have I wiled away Upon hopeful Farley Heath,In its antique soil digging for spoil Of possible treasure beneath;For celts, ...
The night came down thro' Deadman's Gap, Where the ghostly saplings bentBefore a wind that tore the fly From many a digger's ...
The Squire sat propped in a pillowed chair,His eyes were alive and clear of care,But well he knew that the ...
'Tis beautiful indeed--thro' parted boughsTo see the moving clouds darken the sky,To mark their many--shifting forms, and tints,As slow they ...
ON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA-MOSSES.Thanks for thy giftOf ocean flowers,Born where the golden driftOf the slant sunshine fallsDown the ...
IN the old days, while yet the Church was young,And men believed that praise of God was sungIn curbing self ...
Oh, the rare exhilaration, Oh, the novel delectation Of a ride down the slide! Packed like ice in zero weather, Pleasure-seekers close together, On a ...
I.Now the last day of many days,All beautiful and bright as thou,The loveliest and the last, is dead,Rise, Memory, and ...
ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea A fierce north-easter breaks,And makes a thunder on the lea- A whiteness of the lakes.Here, while ...
It's hot to-day. The bees is buzzin' Kinder don't-keer-like aroun' An' fur off the warm air dances O'er the parchin' roofs in town. In ...
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