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  • The Ivy on the Wall
    THE VERDANT ivy clings around
        Yon moss be-mantled wall,
    25 lines
  • Mountain Moss
    IT LIES amongst the sleeping stones,
        Far down the hidden mountain glade;
    48 lines
  • Galatea
    A SILVER slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses,
    And fiery cones, and sultry spurs, and swarthy pits and passes!
    46 lines
  • Faith in God
    HAVE faith in God. For whosoever lists
        To calm conviction in these days of strife,
    43 lines
  • Cui Bono?
    A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night,
        And the Summer comes—with the shining noons,
    68 lines
  • The Earth Laments for Day
    THERE’S music wafting on the air,
        The evening winds are sighing
    40 lines
  • For Ever
    OUT of the body for ever,
        Wearily sobbing, “Oh, whither?”
    83 lines
  • Lost in the Flood
    WHEN God drave the ruthless waters
        From our cornfields to the sea,
    38 lines
  • To - -
    AH, often do I wait and watch,
        And look up, straining through the Real
    43 lines
  • Merope
    FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes—in the face of the splendid
    Six of the sisters—the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright,
    47 lines
  • Deniehy’s Dream
    JUST when the western light
        Flickered out dim,
    43 lines
  • To Miss Annie Hopkins
    BENEATH the shelter of the bush,
    In undisturbed repose—
    16 lines
  • Manasseh
    Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the son
    Of him who, favoured of Jehovah, saw
    131 lines
  • Sedan
    Another battle! and the sounds have rolled
          By many a gloomy gorge and wasted plain
    13 lines
  • Euterpe
    CHILD of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me,
    Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of t
    42 lines
  • Names Upon a Stone: (Inscribed to G. L. Fagan, Esq.)
    ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea
        A fierce north-easter breaks,
    79 lines
  • Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four
    I HEAR no footfall beating through the dark,
        A lonely gust is loitering at the pane;
    63 lines
  • The Late W. V. Wild, Esq.
    SAD FACES came round, and I dreamily said
        “Though the harp of my country now slumbers,
    43 lines
  • Mount Erebus: (A Fragment)
    A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire,
    Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublime
    56 lines
  • The Old Year
    IT PASSED like the breath of the night-wind away,
    It fled like a mist at the dawn of the day;
    18 lines
  • Rizpah
    SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,
    To Jesse’s mighty son: “My Lord, O King,
    63 lines
  • The Song of Arda: (From “Annatanam”.)
    LOW as a lute, my love, beneath the call
    Of storm, I hear a melancholy wind;
    47 lines
  • To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall
    TO-NIGHT the sea sends up a gulf-like sound,
    And ancient rhymes are ringing in my head,
    13 lines
  • The Waterfall
    THE SONG of the water
        Doomed ever to roam,
    78 lines
  • Our Jack
    Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night,
    Twelve years ago, the Spirit of the Storm
    85 lines
  • The Glen of Arrawatta
    A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gusts
    Are beating round the windows in the cold,
    222 lines
  • On the Paroo
    AS WHEN the strong stream of a wintering sea
    Rolls round our coast, with bodeful breaks of storm,
    98 lines
  • The Sydney International Exhibition
    Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth set
    A shining foot on hills of wind and wet—
    292 lines
  • Caroline Chisholm
    THE PRIESTS and the Levites went forth, to feast at the courts of the Kings;
    They were vain of their greatness and worth, and gladde
    33 lines
  • Deniehy’s Lament
    SPIRIT of Loveliness! Heart of my heart!
    Flying so far from me, Heart of my heart!
    18 lines
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