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214-- 1889] The Cambaroora Star So you''re writing for a paper?
214-- of the days of Whate''er Betide?
214-- the bourne of the Outward Bound?
214Ah, why?
214And I wonder does he ponder on the distant years and dim, Or his chances over yonder, when the Army prays for him?
214And answer this:''Are these times better than those?''
214And if my son''s a felon How can I show my face?
214And is it for this damned life we praise the god- like spirit that died At Eureka Stockade in the Roaring Days with the days when the world was wide?
214And who shall whistle round the place When Fortune frowns her blackest?
214But why be bitter?
214Could Mary or her sisters Hold up their heads again, And face a woman''s malice Or claim the love of men?
214Did you catch a ring of sorrow in the city urchin''s voice When he yelled for Billy Elton, when he thumped the floor for Royce?
214Did you hear the gods in chorus when''Ri- tooral''held the stage?
214Do n''t you fancy that the poets ought to give the bush a rest Ere they raise a just rebellion in the over- written West?
214Do the bushmen, down on pleasure, miss the everlasting stars When they drink and flirt and so on in the glow of private bars?
214Do you think we''re never jolly where the trams and buses rage?
214Do you think, my old mate( if it''s thinking you be), Of the days when you tramped to the goldfields with me?
214Has he not a fear connected with the warm place down below, Where, according to good Christians, all the publicans should go?
214He looked at the horses, and counted but three:''You were always together-- where''s Harry?''
214I wonder did Alister think of the scenes in the distance so dim, When Death at the windlass that morning took cruel advantage of him?
214I wonder would the apathy of wealthy men endure Were all their windows level with the faces of the Poor?
214Oh, who shall cheek the squatter now When he comes round us snarling?
214Once the beggar roused my slumbers in a shanty, it is true, But I only heard him asking,''Who the blanky blank are you?''
214Pants?
214Phwat''s this?
214Shall it dash''neath cliffs untrodden, Rocks where nought but sea- drift strays?
214The Cambaroora Star So you''re writing for a paper?
214Then one by one in silence The levelled rifles fell, For who''d shoot Trooper Campbell Of those who knew him well?
214What''s the blessed use of frettin''like a child that wants the moon?
214What''s the good of holding meetings where you only talk and swear?
214What''s the use of bein''bitter?
214What''s the use of bein''narrer just because yer luck is bad?
214What''s the use of gettin''mad?
214Who are ye?
214Who now shall wear the cheerful face In times when things are slackest?
214Why have we no faith in each other?
214With its dull, brown days of a- shilling- an- hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England''s power?
214Would you like to change with Clancy-- go a- droving?
214You know old Trooper Campbell, And have you ever heard That bluff or lead could turn him, That e''er he broke his word?
214and do n''t you know the name of Dunn of Nevertire?
214and''What ship''s that?''
214in advance of Thought Those brave men rose to a height sublime-- and is it for this they fought?
214on the freshening breeze,''Where bound?''
214shall HIS ghastly, sodden Corpse float round for days and days?
214wherever have you been?
214why did you come?
304''Fights best without?''
304''Over the sea you brought us, Over the leagues of foam: Now we have served you fairly Will you not take us home?
304''Steel spurs, of course?''
304''What''s that?
304''What, us?
304''Why, what''s the game?''
304Ai n''t we just where we''ve always been?
304And the last of the old campaigners, Sinewy, lean, and spare-- He spoke for his hungry comrades:''Have we not done our share?
304Are these the beasts we brought away That move so lively now?
304As they walk through a dense human lane, That sways to and fro, And cheers them again and again, Do you think THEY do n''t know?
304Boers outranged''em, but what cared they?
304But after all-- What''s Mounted Fut?
304Do They Know Do they know?
304Do they know?
304Fenced with barbed wire was the paddock-- barbed wire that would cut like a knife-- How was a youngster to clear it that never had jumped in his life?
304Right in the Front of the Army''Where''ave you been this week or more,''Aven''t seen you about the war?
304Shall we hear the parrots calling on the bough?
304Shall we see the flats grow golden with the ripening of the grain?
304So the Dutch let him go, and they watched him, as off from the Islands he ran, Doubting him much, but what would you?
304The Road to Old Man''s Town The fields of youth are filled with flowers, The wine of youth is strong: What need have we to count the hours?
304Was there any path too far for us to tread?
304Was there any road too rough for us to travel?
304Well, no: he''s a thoroughbred horse; Sired by a son of old Panic-- look at his ears and his head-- Lop- eared and Roman- nosed, ai n''t he?
304What Have the Cavalry Done What have the cavalry done?
304What will it profit that with tears or laughter Our watch we keep?
304Where have we been?
304Who goes there?
304Who goes there?
304Who goes there?
304Why, bless my heart, Where have we been since the bloomin''start?
304Why, what d''yer mean?
304Will not you give command That the last of the old campaigners Go back to their native land?''
304You do n''t believe in the yarn you say?
304You do n''t like him; well, maybe-- we all have our fancies, of course: Brumby to look at you reckon?
304what cheer?
304where was he?
4730''Ow are yeh on a little gamble, Kid?
4730Ai n''t''e a size?
4730Kin yeh keep one down?
4730Lad, will yeh take it on?
4730Wot odds?
4730Wot''s in a name?
4730You reckernize this step you contemplate Is grave? 4730 ''Oo is''er gardjin?
4730''Ow is a man to guard agen that look?
4730''Ow is it fer a walk?
4730A sweeter, dearer sound I never''eard; Ther''s music''angs around that little word, Doreen!... But wot was this I starts to say About the play?
4730Ai n''t I glad I''m free?
4730Ai n''t a man the boss in''is own''ouse?
4730An wot''s the good Of yearnin''after any ideel tart?...
4730An''buy''er presents if I wins a pot?
4730An''do n''t I raise me lid an''act perlite?
4730An''so I ort; fer ai n''t I known a few?
4730An''when she''eld''er lips fer me to kiss... Ar, wot''s the use?
4730And did I, fair?
4730But do n''t I keep me temper when we met?
4730But wot''s the use, when''Eaven''s crool''d''is pitch?
4730But, wot''s it matter?
4730Clobber?
4730Cunnin''?
4730Doreen?
4730Fer do n''t I know I''ve copped a bonzer prize?"
4730I arsts meself, wot else could I ixpeck?
4730I''d be as true to''er, I would As straight an''stiddy as... Ar, wot''s the good?
4730Indeed?"
4730Jist take a squiz at this, an''tell me can Some square an''honist tom take this to be''Er own true man?
4730Me jealous?
4730Me?
4730Oh, w''erefore art you Romeo, young sir?
4730Oh,''ow me''eart... V. THE PLAY"Wot''s in a name?"
4730Some more tea, Willy?
4730TAKE''er?
4730TAKE''er?
4730The knock- kneed, swivel- eyed misfit?...
4730Then I thinks,"Why not?
4730V. The Play"Wots in a name?"
4730Will I wot?
4730Wot in the''ell''s''e think I come there for?
4730Wot is the use o''me, I arst?
4730Wot made me go an''do this thing?
4730Wot wus I slung''ere for?
4730Wot wus I thinkin''uv?
4730Wot''s in a name?
4730Wot''s in a string o''words?
4730X. Hitched"An''--wilt-- yeh-- take-- this-- woman-- fer-- to-- be-- Yer-- weddid-- wife?
4730yeh should''a''seen''er stare;"The registry?"
16362And ai n''t he a poet?
16362How now?
16362Now ai n''t he a marvel?
16362Oh, who is this tinker that rhymes at my door? 16362 Shall this man filch our wits from us With his furor poeticus?
16362This blame?
16362Why climb?
16362Yet,said Sym, as he tinkered his can,"What should you know of her, Emily Ann?
16362''Tis thus you are styled?"
16362( Yet how could you hear him singing a song if there was n''t a song to sing?)
16362A low- lived, pilfering, idle scamp, Who steals people''s washing, and sleeps in the damp?"
16362Am I set at naught by a crazed buffoon?"
16362And for what me we hope from his Worship of Quog?"
16362And is she a wife or a maiden rare?
16362And lo, with sorrowful wails and moans, The Glugs cried,"Where, Oh, where are the stones?"
16362And she said,"If the metal is all used up, Pray what of the costume I want for the Cup?
16362And smear all his fingers, and take to drink?
16362And the Glugs cried,"What would our grandfathers do If they had n''t the stones that they one time threw?"
16362And the King said,"What?"
16362And what shall we answer our Lord the King If never a tinker hence we bring, To tinker a kingdom so sore amiss?"
16362And,"Father,"he said,"in the mart''s loud din Is there aught of pleasure?
16362Are you calling to mind some lady fair?
16362But how is he named?
16362But the father said,"Do we blame the night When darkness gathers and none can see?"
16362But what am I''mid such great men?"
16362But whom does it profit-- my people, or Podge?"
16362But, Oh, where in all Gosh is a Glug such as this?"
16362Did you notice the scheme?
16362Do some find joy?"
16362Do you cast aside Promise of honour, and place, and pride, Gold for the asking, and power o''er men- Working your will with the stroke of a pen?
16362Do you notice the dodge?
16362Go messing with ink?
16362How did our grandpas fashion the law?"
16362How did our grandpas look at a tax?"
16362How hope you to profit by such as I?
16362I ask again, quo warranto?
16362I ask him, where''s his quid pro quo?
16362In the whole wide land is there not one sage With a cool, clear brain, who''ll straight engage To sweep the Swanks from Gosh?"
16362Is it meet,"he asked,"that a soul should crawl To a purple robe or a gilded chair?"
16362Oh, who can show tresses like Emily Ann''s?
16362Or the great shout of laughter that swept down the sky?
16362Paint hussies and cows, and end in the clink?"
16362Saw you no sign on the wide Milky Way?
16362The stones?
16362Then roared the King with a rage intense,"Oh, who can cope with their magic tricks?"
16362Then the Glugs all cried, in a terrible fright,"How did our grandfathers manage a fight?"
16362Was he mocking you?
16362What did our grandpas lay down in their rules?"
16362What shall I do?"
16362What''s wrong with the lad?
16362When the aunt recovered she screamed,"A tramp?
16362Which of them all has the greatest worth?"
16362Who knows but it may be in letters or art?
16362With a King forsaken, and Swanks in dread, To whom may we turn for the salving of man?"
16362said Sym,"Is it mortal''s right To blame his fellow for aught he be?"
15524''Oo''s that?
15524''Ow could yeh?
15524''Ow goes it now?
15524''Ow''could yeh, when I''ad me Queen be''ind?
15524Ai n''t I farmed long enough to know the game?
15524Ca n''t I?
15524Did you see Flo?
15524Digger?
15524Do n''t she look grand? 15524 Do you think us blokes Over There, When things was goin''strong, Was keepin''ledgers day be day An''reck''nin''wot the crowd would pay?
15524Finished?
15524Got no work uv yer own?
15524I''ll do me work meself, yeh''ear?
15524Jist tell me this: wot is a partisan?
15524Loot?
15524Match- makin'', Bill?
15524Money?
15524Oh,''er?
15524Suppose we toss it in?
15524Well, are yeh sorry now for wot yeh done?
15524Why did yeh nurse yer Ace?.
15524Why not? 15524 Why not?
15524Winnin''the war?
15524Wot tart?
15524Wot''s up?
15524Yeh mean this Flo?
15524Yeh mind our Syd? 15524 You ai n''t includin''me?"
15524''E looks reel fierce, an''answers, with a frown,"Do you think I am goin''to be rooked For''arf me tucker, jist to get it cooked?"
15524''E stands an''looks at me"Now, wot the''Ell''s got into you?"
15524''E stares at me, an''then sez, slow,"Wot is yer game?
15524''Ome- comfort, peace, the picter uv me wife''Appy at work, me neighbours gathered round All friendly- like-- wot more is there in life?
15524''Ow is the children?"
15524''Them things in Zoos That''ops about?
15524''Wot?''
15524A SQUARE DEAL A Square Deal"DREAMIN''?"
15524A SQUARE DEAL"Dreamin''?"
15524A sport?
15524Ai n''t it grand?"
15524Ai n''t that a fact?
15524Ai n''t there enough uv joy to- day To drive the bogey man away An''make reel things worth while?
15524An you?"
15524An''wo n''t yeh''ave a second cup uv tea?
15524Better?
15524But all this game uv grab an''greed An''silly''ate-- Why, where''s the need?"
15524But this believin''?
15524But''er?
15524Ca n''t I see''i m now?"
15524Do you think all the boys gone West Wants great swank''ead- stones on their chest?
15524Got a match?"
15524I might be groggy in me walk; But if yeh say them things to me I''m man enough to crack yeh; see?"
15524I parts; an''''e stands grinnin''at me still; An''then''e sez,"''Ave yeh fergot me, Bill?"
15524I points''i m out to Smith an''sez;"''Oo''s that?
15524It''s jist a silly game uv theirs, an''so, I gives the countersign:"Wot?
15524JIM''S GIRL Jim''s Girl"''Oo is that girl,"sez Digger Smith,"That never seems to bother with No blokes: the bint with curly''air?
15524Jist''ere, Doreen she sez to me,"Good Lor, Wot do yeh want_ two_ plugs uv''baccer for?"
15524Looks like a soldier, do n''t''e, be''is''at?"
15524No trumps?
15524Now wot about this''arf a man?"
15524Now, ai n''t that like a woman?
15524Said I,"Now, tell me, tell me straight; Own up; ai n''t there a girl?"
15524Said''e,"Now, dinkum, talkin''square, When you git gazin''over there Do n''t you''arf want to cry?
15524Said''e,"Why, lad, I tell yeh straight, I feel like startin''now, An''walkin''on, an''on, an''thro'', Dead game an''--Ain''t it so to you?
15524Say, ai n''t yer''ead a trifle thick?
15524Say, wot''s the lurk?"
15524Sez she,"''Ow can''e, by''imself?"
15524She sez,''Can it be true?''
15524Suppose''e is n''t fit to darnce at all, Then, ai n''t we''asty fixin''up this ball?
15524Sure there was nothin''else yeh wanted''ere?"
15524THE BOYS OUT THERE The Boys Out There"WHY do they do it?
15524THE BOYS OUT THERE"Why do they do it?
15524Then Digger Smith''e grins at Poole, an''then''e looks at me, An''sez, quite soft an''friendly- like,"Winnin''the war?"
15524When I seen''er state I thinks I''d best see Digger straight away;''Cos, if I do n''t,''e''s bound to''ear the row, With''er:"Where is''e?
15524Why do n''t yeh get a wife, an''settle down?"
15524Wot am I sayin''now?
15524Wot did I know When I was tossed out on me neck As if I was a shattered wreck The time I tried to go?
15524Wot did they know uv war first off, When they joined up?
15524Wot do yeh know?"
15524Wot does she want with''arf a man?"
15524Wot''s stoppin''yeh?"
15524Yeh do n''t ixpec''No tart to tie up to a wreck?
15524Yeh do n''t mean kangaroos?
15524Yeh gone to sleep?"
962Did the strangers come around you, in the far- off foreign land? 962 Ere you quit this ancient casement, tell me, is it well to yearn For the evanescent visions, vanished never to return?
962In the sound of many footfalls, did you falter with regret For a step which used to gladden in the time so vivid yet? 962 Is there a ravelled riddle left That you would have undone?
962Is there never a peace for the sinner Whose sin is in this, that he mars The light of his worship of Beauty, Forgetting the flower for the stars?
962Lovely Being, can a mortal, weary of this changeless scene, Cross these cloudy summits to the land where man hath never been? 962 Or who knows but that some secret lies beneath yon dismal mound?
962Past sight, out of mind, alienated,Said the Dream to me, wearily sighing,"Ah, where is the Winter you mated To Love, its decline and its dying?
962Wahina, why linger,Annatanam said,"When the tent of a chieftain is lonely?
962Wahina, why weep o''er a handful of dust, When the souls of the brave are approaching? 962 Was it well, O you wandering wailer, Abandoned in terrible space, To halt on the highway to Heaven Because of a glittering face?"
962Where are all the springs you talked of? 962 Will it end all this watching, and doubting, and dread?
962Will you reside with me, my dear?
962You ebber see dat fellow go?
962A Birthday Trifle Here in this gold- green evening end, While air is soft and sky is clear, What tender message shall I send To her I hold so dear?
962A dull cloud creepeth close to the moon, And the winter winds pass with a shuddering croon-- Oh, why was he snatched from his brothers so soon?
962Alcyone''s tears, or the sight to discover Of Sisyphus pallid for thee by the blue, bitter lights of the deep-- Pallid, but patient for sorrow?
962And across a burnt body, as black as an adder, Sits the sprite of a sheep- dog( was ever sight sadder?)
962And are you so near me at last?
962And does the gleam on Ocean''s wave Tide gladness now to me and you?
962And is it not His will That deeply injured Right Should overthrow the iron rule And reign instead of Might?
962And shall Australia, framed and set in sea, August with glory, wait in vain for thee?
962And, lying alone, do you look from the drouth Of a thirsty Life with a pleading mouth?
962Are not the grasses round your grave Yet springing green and fresh to view?
962Are ye not the sad memorials, telling of a mighty grief-- Dark with records ground and lettered into caverned rock and reef?
962As she lay, the helpless maiden, caught and bound in fast eclipse, Did the lips of god drain pleasure from her sweet and swooning lips?
962As they looked on the haven before them, Already high looming and near, What else but a joy could invade them, Or what could they feel but a cheer?
962As those long hours glided past him, till the east with light was fraught, Who may know the mournful secret-- who can tell us what he thought?
962Back again?
962Because of this, how fares the Leader dead?
962Before he was caught in the breach-- in the pits of iniquity grim, Did ever the Deity reach the hand of a Father to him?
962Bells, beyond the forest chiming, where is all the inspiration now That was wo nt to flush my forehead, and to chase the pallor from my brow?
962But I have not leapt to the level Where light and the shadows dissever?
962But Zeus is immutable Master, and these are the walls the immortals Build for our sighing, and who may set lips at the lords and repine?
962But shall we never see Your happy face, my brave lad, any more?
962But the lips of the flower of the rose Said,"where is the ending hereof?
962But when I bless your world with light, Who makes it dark?
962But, folded in sunset, how long have you slept By the Roses all reeling with colours?
962Can he live for that horrible chaos Of flame and perpetual rain?"
962Can the fond delusion linger still, When the Evening withers o''er me, and the night is creeping up the hill?
962Can you bear the faint day as it closes And dies into twilighted hours?
962Can you look at the red of the roses; Are you friend of the fields and the flowers?
962Can you think of all the dangers you and I are living through With a soul so weak and fearful, with the doubts_ I_ never knew?
962Comrade, wherefore tarry here?
962Cui Bono?
962Dark thoughts live when tears wo n''t gather; Who can tell us what she felt?
962Dear old place, are we so near you?
962Did I hear a low echo of footfalls about, Whilst watching those forest trees stark?
962Did a lonely phantom wail, Pent amongst those tangled branches barring out the moonlight pale?
962Did beauty wax dim while watching for him Who passed through the threshold no more?
962Did ever a moment supreme Illumine his face with a strange ineffably beautiful dream?
962Did ever his countenance change?
962Did my Spirit yearn in vain; And amidst this holy splendour can a moody heart remain?
962Did the sweet winds come and lull him with the music of the sea?
962Did they lead you out of sorrow, with kind face and loving hand?
962Do these sorrows die out with our breath?
962Do you hear her, Ulmarra?
962Do you hear her, Ulmarra?
962Do you hear her, Ulmarra?
962Do you know that she watches the rain, and the main, And the waves which are moaning there?
962Do you love the low notes of the ballad She sang in her darling old fashion?"
962Dost thou know of the cunning of Beauty?
962Dost thou not remember that the thorns are clustered with the rose, And that every Zin- like border may a pleasant land enclose?
962Doth a devil deceive them?
962Doth it trouble his head?
962Down amongst the hills of tempest, where the elves of tumult roam-- Blown wet shadows of the summits, dim sonorous sprites of foam?
962Drowned at Sea Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves, Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ocean graves?
962Far in the falls of the day, Down in the meadows of myrrh, What has she left you to say Filled with the beauty of her?
962Flying splendours, singing streams, Lutes and lights, May they be as happy dreams: Sounds and sights; So that Time to Love may say,"Wherefore weep?
962For Ever Out of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing,"Oh, whither?"
962For are they not between us saved, The words my darling used to say, What time the western waters laved The forehead of the fainting day?
962For how can you find a repose in the toss of the tangle and weed?
962For this heroic Irish heart We miss so much to- day, Whose life was of our lives a part, What words have I to say?
962For who may brave the gods?
962For who may brave the gods?
962For who that has masculine flame, Or who that is thorough at all, Can help feeling joy in the fame Of this king of the kings of the stall?
962Gleesome children were we not?
962Had they pleasant ways to court you-- had they silver words to bind?
962Had they souls more fond and loyal than the soul you left behind?
962Has Richmond more wonderful eyes, Or Melbourne that spring in his tread?
962Hath he not followed a star through the darkness, Ye people who sit at the table of Jephthah?
962Hath he not seen the fierce ghost of a hag in it?
962Have I no word at all for him Who used down fetid lanes to slink, And squat in tap- room corners grim, And drown his thoughts in dregs of drink?
962Have I not an ample reason So to long for-- sick of treason-- Something of the grand old season, Just to be where Mooni is?
962Have I not with pleading mouth Looked to Heaven through a silence stifled in the crimson drouth?
962Have I not, with lips unsated, watched to see the fountains burst, Where I searched the rocks for cisterns?
962Have not our hours of meeting gone, Like fading dreams on phantom wings?
962Have the blights Of many winters left it on a faded tomb?
962Have you faith at all in omens?
962Have you hidden the ways of this Woman, Her whispers, her glances, her power To hold you, as demon holds human, Chained back to the day and the hour?
962He that went happy and healthy and human there-- Where shall the white leper fly to be cleaned?
962He, catching there at some phantasmic help, Sat upright on the bolster with a cry Of"Where is Jesus?
962Head whereon the white is stealing, Heart whose hurts are past all healing, Where is now the first pure feeling?
962Hear I not a dreamy echo, soughing through the rafters of the tree; Like a sound of stormy rivers, or the ravings of a restless sea?
962Hear ye not, across the ocean, Echoes of the distant fray, Sounds of loud and fierce commotion, Swiftly sweeping on the way?
962Heard maledictions that startle the stars?
962Hold you not some strange tradition coupled with this strange lament?
962I pluck at a rose and I stir To think of this sweet- hearted maiden-- what name is too tender for her?
962I tell ye that I_ love_ the storm, for think we not of_ thoughts_ of yore, When, streaming down the lattices, the rain comes sobbing to the door?
962If the days were days of toil Wherefore should we mourn; There were shadows near the shine, Flowers with the thorn?
962If the men of other nations Dash their fetters to the ground; When the foeman seeks your stations, Will you willing slaves be found?
962In my vision, once so glorious, did we find that aught was changed; Or that ONE whom WE remembered was forgotten or estranged?
962In your life of light and music, tell me did you ever see, Shining in a holy silence, what was as a flame in me?
962Is it sad to be emptied of love?"
962Is it sweet with you, life, at the close?
962Is it well that I should with to leave this dreary world behind, Seeking for your fair Utopia, which perchance I may not find?
962Is it well to hold a reed Out for drowning men to clutch at in the moments of their need?
962Is it well, thou friendly Being, well to wish for such a change?"
962Is not the kindness of our Lord too great to think upon?
962Is she maiden or marvel of marble?
962Is the sleep of your Sorrow a witness She is passed all the roads of returning?
962Is there no absent face to love That you must live alone?
962Is there no deed of yours at all With beauty shining through it?
962Is this the old, old tale?
962Is this worn cap I hold The only thing you''ve left us of yourself?
962Koola, our love and our light, What have they done unto you?
962Let me ask, where none can hear me-- When you passed into the shine, And you heard a great love calling, did you know that it was mine?
962Let the sailor sing the story of the ancient ocean''s glory, Forests golden, mountains hoary-- can he look and love like we?
962Look towards that flaming crescent-- look beyond that glowing space-- Tell me, sister of the angels, what is beaming in thy face?"
962Love is Love, and never dies"And another asketh, doubting that my brother speaks the truth,"Can we love in age as fondly as we did in days of youth?
962Men that laugh and men that weep Call thee Music-- shall I follow, choose their name, and turn and sleep?
962Men that laugh and men that weep Call thee Music-- shall I follow, choose their name, and turn and sleep?
962Nor catch you up to mischief with your knife Amongst the apple trees?
962Nor find you out A truant playing on the road to school?
962Nor hear you whistling in the fields at eve?
962Nor meet you, boy, in any other guise You used to take?
962Not a ragged blade of verdure-- not one root of moss is there; Who hath torn the grasses from it-- wherefore is that barrow bare?
962Now that these and all Love''s treasures blushed, before the spoiler, bare, Was the wrong that shall be nameless done, and seen, and suffered there?
962Now where the land''s worn face is grey And storm is on the wave, What flower is left to bear away To Edward Butler''s grave?
962O darling of mine, do you ever yearn For a something lost, which will never return?
962O darling of mine, on the grave of dead Hours, Do you feel, like me, for a handful of flowers?
962Oh, can she not from yonder sky That gleams above her, borrow A single ray, or find a way To check the tear of sorrow?
962Oh, where are the tracks of her lover?
962Oh, why do you moan, in this wide world alone, When so much affection here blooms?
962Oh, why dost thou slumber, Kooroora?
962Or was it a dream that I hurried without To clutch at and grapple the dark?
962Or which of us can bear to stand and see The white affliction of a faded face, Made old by you and me?
962Passing through a gloomy forest, scaling steeps like prison walls, Where the scanty sunshine wavers and the moonlight seldom falls?
962Past the waste of thorny terrors, did he reach a sphere of rills, In a region yet untravelled, ringed by fair untrodden hills?
962Pytheas Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea-- Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven wreath for thee?
962Safely housed at last from rack-- Far from pain; Who would wish to have him back?
962Saturn''s son is high and just: Did he come between her beauty and the fierce Far- darter''s lust?
962Say, where have you buried her sweetness, Her coldness for youth and its yearning?
962See, behind us gleams a green plot, shall we thither turn and rest Till a cold wind flutters over, till the day is down the west?
962Shall more than Tempe''s beauty be unsung Because its shine is strange-- its colours young?
962Shall we yearn, and we so feeble?"
962She lifted her eyes to the glimmering hill, Then spoke, with a voice like a musical rill,"The time is too short; can I sojourn here still?"
962Should I loiter here to listen, while this fitful wind is on the wing?
962Silent Tears What bitter sorrow courses down Yon mourner''s faded cheek?
962Sir, Will you oblige me by reading this letter, and the accompanying verses?
962Slake your thirst, but stay and tell me: did your heart with terror beat, When you stepped across the bare and blasted hillock at your feet?
962Some one saith,"Oh, you that mock at Passion with a worldly whine, Would you change the face of Nature-- would you limit God''s design?
962Surrounded by pillars and spires whose summits shone out in the glare Of the high, the omnipotent fires, who knows what was seen by them there?
962Thanks, spirits departed!--heard I not your voices Faint rolling along on the breath of the gale?
962The rotten leaf falleth, the forest rain calleth; And what is the end of the whole?
962The tender message Hope might send Sinks fainting at the lips of speech, For, are you lover-- are you friend, That I would reach?
962The windy hills stared at the black, heavy clouds coming over the wave; My girl was expecting me back, but where was my power to save?
962The"few"will try to beat it down, But can they stop the flood-- Bind up the pinions of the light, Or check the will of God?
962Think ye, in the time of danger, When that threatening moment comes-- Will ye let the heartless stranger Drive your kindred from their homes?
962This was his history, friend-- Ragged, unhoused, and alone; How could the child comprehend Love that he never had known?
962Through a mist of many voices, listening for sweet accents fled, Heard we hints of lost affection, or of gentle faces dead?
962Through the glens of the Past, do you wander along, Like a restless ghost that hath done a wrong?
962Upon his brow what leaves of laurel, say?
962VII The Stanza of Childe Harold Who framed the stanza of Childe Harold?
962Was it well while there to mourn; When the loved-- the loving, crowding, came to welcome our return?
962Was she left with her beauty, O lover, And the shreds of your passion about her, Beyond reach and where none can discover?
962Was the spot where last he rested pleasant as an old- world lea?
962Was there help for Ladon''s daughter?
962Wept it for that gleam of glory wasting from the forest aisles; For that fainting gleam of glory sad with flickering, sickly smiles?
962Were ye not like maddened demons while young children faint with fear Cried and cried and cried for succour, and no helping hand was near?
962What act like his of days gone by-- The grand old Asian thinker?
962What awful lyre of marvellous power and range Upraised this Ilion-- wrought this dazzling change?
962What care have I ever to know His owner by sight or by name?
962What could she do but obey, Even when suffering Faith Had n''t the power to pray?
962What dream is this on lawny spaces set?
962What golden shroud is at his funeral spread?
962What great mute majesty is this that takes The first of morning ere the song- bird wakes?
962What have you done to edify, You clammy chapel tinker?
962What kind of mourners weep for him to- day?
962What might mean that muffled sobbing?
962What miracle of dome and minaret?
962What odds if assumption has sealed His soulless hereafter abode, So long as he shows to his"field"The gleam of his hoofs, and the road?
962What other doubts are there to sift?"
962What rose of song with breath like myrrh, And leaf of dew and fair pure beams Shall I select and give to her-- The lady of my dreams?
962What sort of"gospel"do you preach?
962What strange, sweet harp of highest god took flame And gave this Troy its life, its light, its name?
962What sun is this that beams and broadens west?
962What tender rose of song is here That I may pluck and send Across the hills and seas austere To my lamented friend?
962What wonder this, in deathless glory dressed?
962What words of light, what high resplendent phrase Have I for all the lustre of her days?
962What"Bible"is your Bible?
962When I talk of what we will be, and new aspirations throng, Why are you so sadly silent, dark- haired Maid of Gerringong?"
962When shall I reach you from a depth of darkness which is real?
962When the rain''s on the roof, and the gales are abroad, Do you wash with your tears the feet of your God?
962When the sun was as a menace, glaring from a sky of brass, Did he ever rest, in visions, on a lap of German grass?
962When they left you in the night- hours, did you lie awake like me, With the thoughts of what we had been-- what we never more could be?
962When, streaming down the lattices, The rain comes sobbing to the door?
962Where are the valleys of the flashing wing, The dim green margins and the glimmering spring?
962Where are the woods that, ninety summers back, Stood hoar with ages by the water- track?
962Where have all those fancies fled to?
962Where is the fiend with the face of desire?
962Where moulders the traveller''s clay?
962Where now the warrior of the forest race, His glaring war- paint and his fearless face?
962Wherefore stay to talk of fainting, when the sun, with sinking fire, Smites the blocks of broken thunder, blackening yonder craggy spire?
962While the moon is on the hill Gleaming through the streaming fogs, Do n''t you hear the yapping of the dogs-- The yapping and the yelping of the dogs?
962Who amongst the world''s high singers ever breathed the tale sublime Of the man who coasted England in the misty dawn of time?
962Who can look beyond the darkness; who can see so he may tell Where the sunsets all have gone to; where the souls that leave us dwell?
962Who hath a portion, Alcyone, like her?
962Who knows of their faith-- of its power?
962Who knows-- if souls in bliss can leave the borders of their Eden- home-- But that some loving one may now about the ancient threshold roam?
962Why comes your voice, you lonely One, Along the wild harp''s wailing strings?
962Why was our delight so fickle?
962Why were you away so long, When you knew who waited for you, dark- haired Maid of Gerringong?
962Will dead faces always haunt us, in the time of faltering breath?
962Will it ever, ever, ever fly to me, By this surging sea, By this surging, sooming sea, By this wailing, wild- faced sea?
962Will she ever, ever, ever hither come?
962Will they pass from our souls like a nightmare,"I said,"While we glide through the mazes of Death?
962Will to- morrow bring The hours of pleasant rest?
962Will you ever fly back to this city of ours With your harp and your voice and your beauty?
962With all his sense and scholarship, How could he face his fading wife?
962You know the place?
962You saw it, Father?
962You sit and hug a sorry hope-- Yet who will dare to say, The sweetness of October Is not for Ellen Ray?
962You that have loved her so much, Loved her asleep and awake, Trembled because of her touch, What have you said for her sake?
962You, having read the Holy Writ-- The Book the angels foster-- Say have you helped us on a bit, You overfed impostor?
962am I asleep-- or abroad and awake?
962her heart it is wasted with crying-- Do you hear her, Ulmarra?
962how can we wittingly trust?
962in his life, had he mother or wife, To wait for his step on the floor?
962is this the trusting girl I swore to love, to shield, to cherish so But ten years back?
962knowing what you''ve loved and lost, I ask where shall we find its like, and when?
962lost to thyself and thy lover, Cast, like a dream, out of thought, with the moons which have passed into sleep, What shall avail thee?
962saith she, wildly moaning Where the grass- grown silence lies,"Is there rest from sobs and groaning-- Rest with you beyond the skies?
962was it a daughter Of sorrow and sin, That they threw it so madly Down into the lynn?
962when will you meet with that soul of your choice, Who will lead you down here from the mountains?
962where are thy mourners, Kooroora?
962where doth her chieftain lie shaded?
962where is her warrior sleeping?
962where was my power, when Death was glaring at me from the reef?
962where you sit and wait?"
962who would come and say to me, With the eyes of far- off friendship,"You are as you used to be"?
962why should I stay To think and dream of joys unknown?
962wilt thou float and float to me Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of the sea?
962wilt thou float and float to me, Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of the sea?