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Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poetry, by first line

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  • De Te
    A burning glass of burnished brass,
    The calm sea caught the noontide rays,
    90 lines
  • Ars Longa
    Ars Longa
    [A Song of Pilgrimage]
    74 lines
  • Delilah
    Delilah
    [From a Picture]
    66 lines
  • Doubtful Dreams
    Aye, snows are rife in December,
    And sheaves are in August yet,
    152 lines
  • Confiteor
    The shore-boat lies in the morning light,
    98 lines
  • Cui Bono
    Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles,
    48 lines
  • Fauconshawe
    Fauconshawe
    [A Ballad]
    190 lines
  • No Name
    'Tis a nameless stone that stands at your head --
    The gusts in the gloomy gorges whirl
    52 lines, 1 comment
  • Pastor Cum
    You carry, even now doth Pallas show
    Her wrath, preparing buckler, car, and helm.
    36 lines
  • The Three Friends
    The Three Friends
    (From the French)
    110 lines
  • A Fragment
    They say that poison-sprinkled flowers
    Are sweeter in perfume
    16 lines, 7 comments
  • The Old Leaven
    So, Maurice, you sail to-morrow, you say?
    And you may or may not return
    194 lines, 1 comment
  • Early Adieux
    Adieu to kindred hearts and home,
    To pleasure, joy, and mirth,
    64 lines
  • Quare Fatigasti
    Two years ago I was thinking
    On the changes that years bring forth;
    64 lines
  • Laudamus
    The Lord shall slay or the Lord shall save!
    He is righteous whether He save or slay --
    45 lines
  • To My Sister
    Across the trackless seas I go,
    No matter when or where,
    104 lines, 1 comment
  • Borrow'd Plumes
    Borrow'd Plumes
    [A Preface and a Piracy]
    29 lines
  • Unshriven
    Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie,
    39 lines
  • A Dedication
    They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less
    Of sound than of words,
    48 lines
  • The Swimmer
    With short, sharp violent lights made vivid,
    To the southward far as the sight can roam,
    104 lines
  • The Last Leap
    ALL is over! fleet career,
    Dash of greyhound slipping thongs,
    55 lines
  • Thora's Song ('Ashtaroth')
    We severed in Autumn early,
    Ere the earth was torn by the plough;
    40 lines
  • Gone
    IN Collins Street standeth a statute tall,
    A statue tall, on a pillar of stone,
    72 lines
  • To A Proud Beauty
    "A Valentine"
    Though I have loved you well, I ween,
    17 lines
  • From The Wreck
    "Turn out, boys!" — "What's up with our super. to-night?
    The man's mad — Two hours to daybreak I'd swear —
    136 lines
  • The Roll Of The Kettledrum; Or, The Lay Of The Last Charger
    "You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,
    Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?
    266 lines
  • Thick-Headed Thoughts: Part 3
    'Tis a wicked world we live in;
    Wrong in reason, wrong in rhyme;
    23 lines
  • The Death Of Nelson
    'TWAS midst the battle's echoing din
    And the cannon's thundering roar,
    79 lines
  • How We Beat The Favourite
    A Lay of the Loamshire Hunt Cup
    "Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens;
    124 lines, 5 comments
  • Thick-Headed Thoughts: Part 2
    A man is independent of the world,
    And little recks of strife or angry brawl,
    8 lines
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