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Born in January 23, 1813 / Died in June 10, 1868 / Australia / English

Poems by Charles Harpur

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A Poet's Home

... Despatch’d though savoury, both should forth to taste ...

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Burns

... and she, Who ’mid its perilous breakers might have stood ...

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Consolation

...   Somewhere in Nature’s motherly breast there’s ruth ...

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A Sonnet dedicated to Sir George Gipps

...  Hands grasping all, through party means, to seize ...

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The Master Mariner’s Song

... Save when the breeze straining in lengthen’d escape ...

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An Anthem for the Australasian League

...   Not for Old World queens and kings, ...

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Early Summer

... When wide warm fields are glad with corn as green as ever grew, ...

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Monodies

... In the flesh What own we but the present, with its scant ...

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The Ideal

... Give to the heart stern strength and lift the soul on high! ...

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Dreams of the Beloved

... ”   Thus blest in sleep, who would not weep to wake ...

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Words

... And many a lay that schoolboys scan ...

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A Poet to...

...  Or bright, or dark, through thee,—this missive says ...

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The Flight of Peace

... There too, there, to irk the stranger, ...

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Could we as Mortals

...  How little cared for that which now is most our care ...

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'Yes'

... What boundless power is thine to bless! ...