Arthur Henry Adams
Who is Arthur Henry Adams
Arthur Henry Adams (6 June 1872 – 4 March 1936) was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.
Biography
Arthur Adams was born in Lawrence, New Zealand, and educated at the University of Otago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and began studying law. He then abandoned law to become a journalist in Wellington, where he began contributing poetry to The Bulletin, a Sydney periodical. He moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as private secretary and literary advisor to J.C. Williamson, a noted theatrical manager.In 1900 Adams travelled to China to cover the Boxer Rebellion as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and several New Zealan...
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Arthur Henry Adams Poems
- Grey Eyes
SHE glanced across the path to me,
Grey eyes!
Her looks were kisses plain to see.
I gave her glances back to herâ??
...
- To My Love
â??PAINT me,â? you said, â??a poem; give to me
A breathing thought that I may keep to kiss!â?
While that low laugh that aye a mandate is
Nestled upon your lips. Call memory
...
- Rain In The Bush
The steady soaking of the rain,
The bush all sad and sombre;
The trees are weeping in their pain,
Dank leaves the ground encumber.
...
- The Dwellings Of Our Dead
They lie unwatched, in waste and vacant places,
In sombre bush or wind-swept tussock spaces,
Where seldom human tread
And never human trace isâ??
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- Blossom Of Life
SO now she lies silent and sweet
With white flowers at her head and feet,
And she, the fairest flower, between.
The bud that with her bosom's swell
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- Deutschernest: she is a form of the poem “my love” by arthur henry adams in person.
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wr miles boykin
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ot john leglue
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ilb ulysees gilbert
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cb kevin king
cb arthur maulet
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- Dansrambles: also fun fact: chet arthur was a former whig, much like henry clay and john quincy adams
- Ianmorrisonco: a lot of presidents sound like equity actors
john f. kennedy
franklin d. roosevelt
warren g. harding
james a. garfield
chester a. arthur
john quincy adams
william henry harrison
james k. polk
ulysses s. grant
harry s truman
dwight d. eisenhower
lyndon b. johnson
george w. bush
- Louveplaise: "the individual or the race would be
educated on the same lines of illusion,
which, according to arthur balfour, had
not essentially varied down to the year
1900."—henry adams,
the education of,
'an appetite for power'
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