Tag: Adam Lindsay Gordon
Zu Der Edlen Yagd Adam Lindsay Gordon I remember some words my father said, When I was an urchin vain ;? God rest his soul, in his narrow bed …
Ye Wearie Wayfarer Adam Lindsay Gordon Hark! the bells of distant cattle Waft across the range, Through the golden-tufted wattle Music low and strange; Like the marriage of peal …
Wormwood And Nightshade Adam Lindsay Gordon The troubles of life are many, The pleasures of life are few ; When we sat in the sunlight, Annie, I dreamt that …
Wolf And Hound Adam Lindsay Gordon You’ll take my tale with a little salt; But it needs none, nevertheless! I was foiled completely – fair at fault – Disheartened, …
Whisperings In Wattle-Boughs Adam Lindsay Gordon Oh, gaily sings the bird, and the wattle-boughs are stirred And rustled by the scented breath of spring ; Oh, the dreary, wistful …
Verses Inspired By ‘My Old Black Pipe’ Adam Lindsay Gordon Aye ! Many a sport old Homer names. By Achilles held ‘ at his little games ‘, On the …
Unshriven Adam Lindsay Gordon Oh ! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harnessed in the hall. And he left …
To My Sister Adam Lindsay Gordon On 4th August, 1853. Being three days before he sailed for Australia. Across the trackless seas I go, No matter when or where, …
To A Proud Beauty (‘A Valentine’) Adam Lindsay Gordon Though I have loved you well, I ween, And you, too, fancied me, Your heart hath too divided been A …
Thora’s Song (‘Ashtaroth’) Adam Lindsay Gordon We severed in Autumn early, Ere the earth was torn by the plough; The wheat and the oats and the barley Are ripe …
