Poems

A Hunter’s Indian Dove DARK is her cheek, but her blood’s rich blush Comes through its dusk with a sunset flush, While joy, like a prairie-bee, […]

A Lament Flowers in their freshness are flushing the earth, And the voice-peopled forest is loud in its mirth, And streams in their fullness are laughing […]

A Love Fancy Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did rove Together in the cool and shadowless haze That thickened round, at the wild stars […]

A Poet to… Long ere I knew thee—years of loveless days, A shape would gather from my dreams, and pour The soul-sweet influence of its gentle […]

A Regret There’s a regret that from my bosom aye Wrings forth a dirgy sweetness, like a rain Of deathward love; that ever in my brain […]

A Similitude FAIR as the night—when all the astral fires Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse, My love is; and her eyes like star-depths […]

A Sonnet dedicated to Sir George Gipps My country! I am sore at heart for thee! An in mine ear, like a storm-heralding breeze, A voice […]

A Storm in the Mountains A lonely boy, far venturing from home Out on the half-wild herd’s faint tracks I roam; Mid rock-browned mountains, which with […]

An Aboriginal Mothers’s Lament [About the year 1842 a party of stockmen, several of whom were afterwards hanged for the crime, made a wholesale slaughter of […]

Andrew Marvell Spirit, that lookest from the starry fold Of truth’s white flock, next to thy Milton there Accept my reverence though but feebly told. And […]