Poems

Hospital For Defectives By your unnumbered charities A miracle disclose, Lord of the Images, whose love The eyelids and the rose Takes for a language, and […]

God Defend New Zealand O Lord, God, of nations and of us too Listen to us, Cherish us Let goodness flourish, May your blessings flow. Defend […]

Not Understood Not understood, we move along asunder; Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep Along the years; we marvel and we wonder Why life […]

Pax Vobiscum IN a forest, far away, One small creeklet, day by day, Murmurs only this sad lay: ‘Peace be with thee, Lilian.’ One old box-tree […]

Spirit Of Song Where is thy dwelling-place? Echo of sweetness, Seraph of tenderness, where is thy home? Angel of happiness, herald of fleetness, Thou hast the […]

Drifting My soul to-day Is far away, Sailing the Vesuvian Bay; My winged boat, A bird afloat, Swings round the purple peaks remote: – Round purple […]

Sheridan’s Ride Up from the South, at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in […]

Adelgitha The ordeal’s fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer of her fame. She wept, […]

Battle of the Baltic Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day’s renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark’s crown, […]

Benlomond Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, What tales, white-headed Ben, Could’st thou of ancient ages speak, That mock th’ historian’s pen! Thy long duration […]