Widderin’s Race. Australian. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
WITH bayonets slanted in the glittering light,With solemn ...
OFTTIMES an old man's yesterdays o'er his frail vision pass,Dim as the twilight tints that touch a dusk-enshrouded glass;But, ah! ...
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...
I REMEMBER it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray,And the legion lay idle and listless that day,A thin drizzle ...
HARK, hark! down the century's long reaching slopeTo those transports of triumph, those raptures of hope,The voices of main and ...
AND where he sat beneath the mystic stars,Nigh the twin founts of Immortality,That feed fair channels of the Stream of ...
THEY slept on the field which their valor had won,But arose with the first early blush of the sun,For they ...
WHEN the war-drums beat and the trumpets blare,When banners flaunt in the stormy air,When at thought of the deeds that ...
THE sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,The rifle hangs safe on the wall;No longer we quail at the hungryHot rush ...
WHAT! still does the mother of treason uprearHer crest 'gainst the furies that darken her sea,Unquelled by mistrust, and unblanched ...
DEAD! dead! in sooth his marbled brow is cold,And prostrate lies that brave, majestic head;True! his stilled features own death's ...
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o'er and o'er,To thy lone grave upon a distant ...
CAN it be that the glory of manhood has passed,That its purpose, its passion, its might,Have all paled with the ...
CALMLY beside her tropic strand,An empress, brave and loyal,I see the watchful city stand,With aspect sternly royal;She knows her mortal ...
THE man who's wholly ruined, sir, fears nothing;How can he when all's lost to him already?There is a desperate gayety ...
O SPIRIT! at whose wafts of chilling breathAutumn unbinds her zone, to rest in death;Touched by whose blight the light ...
I'VE done with all the world can give,Whate'er its kind or measure.(O Christ! what paltry lives we liveIf toil be ...
THE pathway of his mortal life hath woundBeneath a shadow; just beyond it playThe genial breezes, and the cool brooks ...
O! TO beBy the sea, the sea!While a brave nor'wester's blowing,With a swirl on the lee,Of cloud-foam free,And a spring-tide ...
AH! foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried"True chivalry no longer breathes in time."Look round us now; how wondrous, how ...
BRAVE lyrist! like the sky-lark, heaven-possessed,Thy glance is sunward; and thy soul grown wise,Fronts the full splendor of Apollo's eyes,While ...
THAT fair young land which gave me birth is dead!Lost as a fallen star that quivering diesDown the pale pathway ...
AND high amongst these chiefs of iron grain,Large-statured natures, souls of Spartan mien,Superbly brave, inflexibly serene,Man of the, stalwart hope, ...
CLOSE to the verge of fourscore crowded yearsYour heart is strong, your soul serene and bright;As when confronting first life's ...
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