A waving of hats and of hands, The voices of thousands in one, A shout from the ring and the stands, And a glitter of heads in the sun! 'They are off they are off!' is the roar,...
The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark, A torrent beneath them is leaping, And the wind goes about like a ghost in the dark Where a chief of Wahibbi lies sleeping!...
If Laura lady of the flower-soft face Should light upon these verses, she may take The tenderest line, and through its pulses trace What man can suffer for a woman's sake....
Lordly harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep, Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the fathers weep! Voice surpassing human voices high, unearthly harmony...
Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing Falters because of the vision it sees; Voice that is not of the living is ringing Down in the depths where the darkness is clinging,...
When God drave the ruthless waters From our cornfields to the sea, Came she where our wives and daughters Sobbed their thanks on bended knee. Hidden faces! there ye found her...
Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the son Of him who, favoured of Jehovah, saw At midnight, when the skies were flushed with fire, The splendid mystery of the shining air,...
Path beside the silver waters, flashing in October's sun Walk, by green and golden margins where the sister streamlets run Twenty shining springs have vanished, full of flower, and leaf, and bird,...
Far in the ways of the hyaline wastes in the face of the splendid Six of the sisters the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright, Merope sitteth, the shadow-like wife of a monarch unfriended...
Above the skirts of yellow clouds, The god-like Sun, arrayed In blinding splendour, swiftly rose, And looked athwart the glade; The sleepy dingo watched him break The bonds that curbed his flight;...
Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines, Where the morning, like an angel, robed in golden splendour shines; Shimmering mountains, throwing downward on the slopes a mazy glare...
A mighty theatre of snow and fire, Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublime By reason of that lordly solitude Which dwells for ever at the world's white ends; And in that weird-faced wilderness of ice,...
Across bleak widths of broken sea A fierce north-easter breaks, And makes a thunder on the lea A whiteness of the lakes. Here, while beyond the rainy stream The wild winds sobbing blow,...
From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms, Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms From the home of bold echoes, whose voices of wonder...
Stand out, swift-footed leaders of the horns, And draw strong breath, and fill the hollowy cliff With shocks of clamour, let the chasm take The noise of many trumpets, lest the hunt...