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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 Coast View

... —yet, O God! What a blind fate-like mightiness lies coiled ...

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To the Moon [Late Version]

... With pale beam chased the glooms that swathed the infant earth ...

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Emblems

...   Instinct as ’twere with all the love that eyes ...

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Outward Bound

...  With her white sails o’er her spread, ...

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The Beautiful Squatter

... With a warmth that soon ruined poor Miss Possumskin! ...

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Shakespeare

... Pistol then Shall prove what scarecrows often rank as men, ...

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To the Comet of 1843 [late version]

... Through half the arch of night, shall lead thee forth ...

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The Temperance Movement

...  That brands the brow with shame and steels the heart, ...

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A Similitude

...  All moods divine in mortal passion’s trance— &emsp ...

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The Death of Sisera

... ” Day shut, and the stars that had doomed him to death ...

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Trust in God

...  Through all the grim doubts that bemock the soul, ...

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To Poesy

...  Although with arm’d oppression coping, ...

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Greatness

...  Through all its secrets while his days may last ...

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On the Easter Illumination of St. Peter's at Rome

...  Towers, columns, windows, with their carven lore! ...

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To an Echo on the Banks of the Hunter [Early Version]

...   World’s separations, have the names and features ...