Lesbia Harford (1891-1927)
Australian poet, novelist and political activist

Poems by Lesbia Harford

• A Bronte Legend
• “A bunch of lilac and a storm of hail”
• “A lady and I were walking”
• “All through the day at my machine”
• “Ay, ay, ay, the lilies of the garden”
• “Cherry plum blossom in an old tin jug”
• “Child Sun”
• Closing Time: Public Library
• “Dearest, dearest”
• Deliverance through Art
• “Do you remember still the little song”
• “Each morning I pass on my way to work”
• “Emmie, Emmie Adams”
• “Every night I hurry home to see”
• Fatherless
• “Florence kneels down to say her prayers”
• “Green and blue”
• “He had served eighty masters. They'd have said”
• “He has a fairy wife”
• “He has picked grapes in the sun. Oh it seems”
• “How funny it would be if dreamy I”
• “I am no mystic. All the ways of God”
• “I bought a red hat”
• “I came to live in Sophia Street”
• “I can't feel the sunshine”
• “I count the days until I see you, dear”
• “I dare not leave the splendid town”
• “I dreamt last night”
• “I found an orchid in the valley fair”
• “I have golden shoes”
• “I love to see”
• “I must be dreaming through the days”
• “I was sad”
• “I went down to post a letter”
• “If you have loved a brave story”
• Love is not love . . .
• Machinist Talking
• Machinist's Song
• “My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies”
• “O little year, cram full of duty”
• “Pink eucalyptus flowers”
• “She has all Ireland in her blood”
• Suburban Dames
• Summer Lightning
• “Tall trees along the road”
• The Folk I Love
• The Invisible People
• The Melbourne Cup
• The Two Swans
• “They say — priests say”
• “Though I had lost my love”
• White Sunshine
• “Why does she put me to many indignities”
• “You may have other loves”
• “You, whom the grave cannot bind”

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