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  • The Plains
    WIDE are the plains—the plains that stretch to the west
        An ocean of trackless waste, untrodden and rude,
    23 lines
  • The Two Goblets
    Bearing two crystal goblets in her hands
    To a philosopher an Angel came:
    16 lines
  • Thomas Joseph Byrnes
    God gave him gifts: nor gave in vain
    The great heart and the master-brain
    24 lines
  • From Loraine
    I have seen the plains lying baked and bare,
    When drought and famine hold revel there,
    41 lines
  • Victoria
    White Star of Womanhood, whose rays
    Thro’ years of peace and years of stress
    24 lines
  • The Wayfarers
    Still the white stars burn overhead,
    The green earth swings upon her way:
    28 lines
  • To The Unknown God
    O wilt Thou on the day when all is sifted,
        All heights of Heaven, all depths of Hell laid bare,
    11 lines
  • The Wheels Of The System
    Where is God, whilst all around us sounds the jarring of the wheels,
    When the cry of human anguish starwards thro’ His glory steals?
    53 lines
  • Eland’s River
    IT WAS on the fourth of August, as five hundred of us lay
    In the camp at Eland’s River, came a shell from De La Rey—
    52 lines
  • The Master
    In sea and air, in leaf and stone,
    Where’er Truth’s magic words are writ,
    56 lines
  • William Henry Groom Vale`
    NOW is there rest for heart and brain
    No mandate calls to him again.
    33 lines
  • Seddon
    When from his place a forest monarch falls,
    A thunder shakes the leafy leagues across,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Toowoomba
    Dark purple, chased with sudden gloom and glory,
    Like waves in wild unrest,
    24 lines
  • The Song Of Life
    Sing not of Rest
    For heart, or brain, or the strong soul’s emotion
    32 lines
  • The Lion's Whelps
    There is scarlet on his forehead,
    There are scars across his face,
    30 lines
  • The Nation Builders
    A handful of workers seeking the star of a strong intent --
    42 lines
  • To A Bigot
    Here am I sent a wanderer like to thee,
    And here a moment ere the night I stand.
    17 lines
  • Welcome
    Prince of the race whose Empire is the Sea,
    We welcome thee!
    40 lines
  • The Splendour And The Curse Of Song
    Methought the unknown God we seek in vain
        Grew weary of the evil He had wrought—
    37 lines
  • The Song Of Gracia
    SPRING
    Across the street, across the grass,
    81 lines, 2 comments
  • Riches
    Friend, you have wealth and power,
    Men go and come at your call,
    16 lines
  • The Sword Of Pain
    The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,
    The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,
    170 lines
  • The Spirit Of Poetry
    All things are Hers. Concealed or manifest,
        Found or unfound, Her Spirit lives in each—
    52 lines
  • John Farrell
    The pen falls from his nerveless hand,
    The light is fading from his eyes,
    24 lines
  • Out Of The Silence
    Here in the silence cometh unto me
                    A song that is not mine,
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • The Dead Democrat
    The roar and rush of life sweeps on;
    Still shines the sun as once it shone:
    18 lines
  • In Collins Street
    I stood in the heart of the city street,
    I felt the throb of her pulses beat,
    40 lines
  • The Land Of The Dawning
    Darkrose her shore in seas of amethyst
                    By tropic breezes kissed,
    47 lines
  • In A Garden
    Girl, with the soft grey eyes,
    You to the flowers belong:
    12 lines
  • Kara
    Chequered with sunshine and shade—the umbrage of white clouds in motion—
    Rearing their summits to Heaven, broken like waves on their strands,
    24 lines
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