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  • 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
  • From Loraine
    I have seen the plains lying baked and bare,
    When drought and famine hold revel there,
    41 lines
  • The Plains
    WIDE are the plains—the plains that stretch to the west
        An ocean of trackless waste, untrodden and rude,
    23 lines
  • A Grave By The Sea
    No white cloud sails the lonely sky,
    Thro’ the gaunt trees no breezes sigh,
    37 lines
  • Failure
    THE BOY went out from the ranges grim,
    And the breath of the mountains went with him;
    74 lines, 1 comment
  • A Pastoral
    Nature feels the touch of noon;
    Not a rustle stirs the grass;
    48 lines
  • A Commonplace Song
    Ebbs and flows the restless river
    In the city street
    72 lines
  • The Crown Of Empire
    Free is the wind that lashes into foam
    The fortress waves that gird the Sea-King’s home
    74 lines
  • Cymru
    Dim in the mist of ages, seeking a resting-place,
    Broke on the shores of Britain the wave of an Aryan race.
    88 lines, 1 comment
  • The Dead Democrat
    The roar and rush of life sweeps on;
    Still shines the sun as once it shone:
    18 lines
  • The Doves Of Venus
    The dull earth swung in silence o’er,
        A dreamless world, a dreary star,
    23 lines
  • The Dream Star
    Whisper, O wings of the wind! Sing me your song, O sea!
    Grey is the weary world, and grey is the heart of me!
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • A Federal Song
    IN the greyness of the dawning we have seen the pilot-star,
    In the whisper of the morning we have heard the years afar.
    27 lines
  • The Grey Road
    A sun-flash on his mounting wing,
        A wild note soaring high—
    37 lines
  • In A Garden
    Girl, with the soft grey eyes,
    You to the flowers belong:
    12 lines
  • In Collins Street
    I stood in the heart of the city street,
    I felt the throb of her pulses beat,
    40 lines
  • John Farrell
    The pen falls from his nerveless hand,
    The light is fading from his eyes,
    24 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
  • The Land Of The Dawning
    Darkrose her shore in seas of amethyst
                    By tropic breezes kissed,
    47 lines
  • The Lion's Whelps
    There is scarlet on his forehead,
    There are scars across his face,
    30 lines
  • Lux In Tenebris
    When first the Gods, whose Empire is eternal,
        In Time’s deep chalice poured Life’s sacred wine,
    116 lines
  • The Master
    In sea and air, in leaf and stone,
    Where’er Truth’s magic words are writ,
    56 lines
  • Morning Land
    Around and beneath, the dull grey mist and the sullen roar of the sea,
    Scant footing-place on the sheer cliffs face—with death for a penalty;
    16 lines
  • Ode To The Philistines
    In an age of Mammon and Greed,
                    In an age of Humbug and Cant,
    67 lines
  • Out Of The Silence
    Here in the silence cometh unto me
                    A song that is not mine,
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • Riches
    Friend, you have wealth and power,
    Men go and come at your call,
    16 lines
  • The Secret Key
    There is a magic kingdom of strange powers,
    Thought-hidden, lit by other stars than ours;
    28 lines
  • Seddon
    When from his place a forest monarch falls,
    A thunder shakes the leafy leagues across,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Song Of Gracia
    SPRING
    Across the street, across the grass,
    81 lines, 2 comments
  • The Song Of Life
    Sing not of Rest
    For heart, or brain, or the strong soul’s emotion
    32 lines
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