Poems

Asking in Vain Still his little grave she seeketh In her mother-sorrow wild, Hush! While in her heart she speaketh To the spirit of her child: […]

Australia’s First Great Poet HIS lot how glorious whom the must shall name Her first high-priest in this bright southern clime! Aglow with light from her […]

Bush Justice A Dealer, bewitched by gain-promising dreams Settled down near my Station, to trade with my Teams, And to sell to, my men too! from […]

Change and Death We build but for change and for death, To whom a like homage pay glory and shame; For something must pass to give […]

Coleridge’s Cristabel Mark yon runnel, how ’tis flowing, Like a sylvan spirit dreaming Of the spring-blooms near it blowing, And the sunlight o’er it beaming— Bright […]

Cora Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing; Of how she came when came the flowers, To leave us with the spring. That […]

Could we as Mortals Could we as mortals but our end foresee, How little in our minds the world would be; Could we as spirits but […]

Dawn and Sunrise in the Snowy Mountains A few thin strips of fleecy cloud lies long And motionless above the eastern steeps, Like shreds of silver […]

Dawn in the Mountains It is the morning star, arising slow Out of yon hill’s dark bulk, as she were born Of its desire for day; […]

Description of a Tropical Island Behold an Indian isle, reposed Upon the deep’s enamoured breast, Even like a royal bride, be-rosed With passion in her happy […]