Charles Harpur (Чарльз Харпур)
Song
THE world's heart is kindless and grey and unholy,
As the head of the wandering Jew,
And can never be won from the cause of its folly
Till man to Humanity’s true;
There’s a path to redemption—but that we shall miss
While we seek in the old warring manner;
Till we re ready to fight a new battle for this—
The motto inscribed on our banner,—
To principles let us by loyal alway,
And true to all good in man’s story;
Not to that mockery, royal display,
Nor that Juggernaut, national glory!
And though ever someone, to be doughty and noted,
Like Nimrod, should aim at a throne,
It were easy to leave him a wight unpromoted,
To brood o’er his project alone!
Or to meet him at once with a withering hiss,
For we love not ambition’s old manner,
We are fired for a new race of glory with this—
The motto inscribed on our banner—
To principles let us by loyal alway,
And true to all good in man’s story;
Not to that mockery, royal display,
Nor that Juggernaut, national glory!
Charles Harpur's other poems:- A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest
- A Basket of Summer Fruit
- Joshua
- This Southern Land of Ours
- Description of a Tropical Island
Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):
Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales") Charlotte Mew (Шарлотта Мью) Song ("Love love to-day, my dear") John Davidson (Джон Дэвидсон) Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay") Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou") George Etherege (Джордж Этеридж) Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes") Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827Bryan Procter (Брайан Проктер) Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary") Bayard Taylor (Бейард Тейлор) Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear") Mary Chudleigh (Мэри Чадли) Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?") Isaac Bickerstaffe (Айзек Бикерстафф) Song ("How happy were my days, till now") George Lyttelton (Джордж Литтелтон) Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732Philip Massinger (Филип Мэссинджер) Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death") Hilaire Belloc (Хилар Беллок) Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year") Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) Song ("Oh! To be a flower") Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Song ("It is my thoughts that colour") Mary Montagu (Мэри Монтегю) Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart") Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape") Richard Sheridan (Ричард Шеридан) Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen") George Crabbe (Джордж Крэбб) Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing") Anna Seward (Анна Сьюард) Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly") Aubrey De Vere (Обри Де Вер) Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne") Edith Nesbit (Эдит Несбит) Song ("NOW the Spring is waking") Maria Lowell (Мария Лоуэлл) Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun") William Monkhouse (Уильям Монкхаус) Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love") Eliza Acton (Элиза Эктон) Song ("Give me gay music !—we will not dwell") Thomas Eliot (Томас Элиот) Song ("If space and time, as sages say") 1907Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) Song ("O roses for the flush of youth") Irwin Ginsberg (Ирвин Гинзберг) Song ("The weight of the world") 1954John Clare (Джон Клэр) Song ("One gloomy eve I roam’d about")
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