Poems

The Sick Stockrider Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you’ve had your work cut out to […]

The Song of the Surf White steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roar On the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom’s […]

The Swimmer With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of the surges livid, The […]

The Three Friends The Three Friends (From the French) The sword slew one in deadly strife; One perish’d by the bowl; The third lies self-slain by […]

Thick-headed Thoughts Thick-headed Thoughts No. I I’ve something of the bull-dog in my breed, The spaniel is developed somewhat less; While life is in me I […]

Thora’s Song (‘Ashtaroth’) We severed in Autumn early, Ere the earth was torn by the plough; The wheat and the oats and the barley Are ripe […]

To a Proud Beauty “A Valentine” Though I have loved you well, I ween, And you, too, fancied me, Your heart hath too divided been A […]

To My Sister Across the trackless seas I go, No matter when or where, And few my future lot will know, And fewer still will care. […]

Unshriven Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness’d in the hall, And he left his […]

Whispering in Wattle -Boughs OH, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirred And rustled by the scented breath of Spring; Oh, the dreary wistful […]