Poems

On visiting the spot where Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks first landed in Bot Here fix the tablet. This must be the place Where our […]

The Kangaroo Kanagaroo, Kangaroo! Thou Spirit of Australia, That redeems from utter failure, From perfect desolation, And warrants the creation Of this fifth part of the […]

A Petition To Time TOUCH us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. Humble voyagers are We, […]

A Poet’s Thought TELL me, what is a poet’s thought? Is it on the sudden born? Is it from the starlight caught? Is it by the […]

Autumn Morning at Cambridge I ran out in the morning when the air was clean and new, And all the grass was glittering, grey with autumn […]

Golden-Tressed Adelaide SING, I pray, a little song, Mother dear! Neither sad nor very long: It is for a little maid, Golden-tressed Adelaide! Therefore let it […]

In France The poplars in the fields of France Are golden ladies come to dance; But yet to see them there is none But I and […]

Life WE are born; we laugh; we weep; We love; we droop; we die! Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep? Why do we live, or […]

Peace! What Do Tears Avail? PEACE! what do tears avail? She lies all dumb and pale, And from her eye The spirit of lovely life is […]

Pre-Existence I laid me down upon the shore And dreamed a little space; I heard the great waves break and roar; The sun was on my […]