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

Poems by Charles Harpur

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Mary Arden

...   Shade of Shakespeare’s mother, tell me! ...

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Description of a Tropical Island

... There, too, what birds on plain and mountain, ...

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The Creek of the Four Graves [Early Version]

...   And as they supped, birds of new shape and plume ...

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Hope On

...  “The flowers will come again with spring: ...

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Joshua

... Yon cave Hides them in vain, or hides them only as their grave ...

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Music

... And all his hopes breathe the world’s breath—to die! ...

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Records of Romantic Passion

...   Or round it stirr’d such dangers as o’erdrove ...

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The Hunter's Indian Dove

... “Who’ll pity, who’ll comfort the dark wood-dove ...

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The Babylonian Captivity

...  Their mastery o’er the sounding string! ...

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Poetry and Prose

... Nor in subject, nor treatment, nor passion it ’bides— ...

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Wellington

... An Irishman, Who for a hireling's meed and ministry, ...

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Dora

... Till methought the old-faced hills at looked as they were happy too ...

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The Tree of Liberty

... By gold ’twas felled as bards have held ...

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To the Moon [Earlier Version]

... Chased with pale beam the glooms that swathed the infant Earth ...

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This Southern Land of Ours

... But we'll yet have men, - like Cromwell, ...