Charles Harpur
Who is Charles Harpur
Charles Harpur (23 January 1813 – 10 June 1868) was an Australian poet.
Early life
Harpur was born on 23 January 1813 at Windsor, New South Wales, the third child of Joseph Harpur – originally from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, parish clerk and master of the Windsor district school – and Sarah, née Chidley (from Somerset; both had been transported.). His mother would later remarry to John Walsh, whose daughter Bridget would marry bushranger Ben Hall. Harpur received his elementary education in Windsor. This was probably largely supplemented by private study; he was an eager reader of William Shakespeare. Harpur followed various avocations in the bush and for some years in his twenties held a clerical position at the post office in Sydney.
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Charles Harpur Poems
- The Vision Of The Rock
I SATE upon a lonely peak,
A backwood riverâ??s course to view,
And watched the changing shadows freak
Its liquid length of gleaming blue,
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- Downward, Through The Blooming Roofage
Downward, through the blooming roofage
Of a lonely forest bower,
Come the yellow sunbeams,â??falling
Like a burning shower:
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- Love, Dreaming Of Death
I dreamt my little boys were dead
And I was sitting wild and lone;
On closed unmoving knees my head
Lay rigid as a stone.
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- An Aboriginal Mothers's Lament
An Aboriginal Motherâ??s Lament
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- Ecce Homo
A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted,
He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands
Of Pilateâ??s hireling bands;
And while beneath their cruel scourge He fainted,
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- Bedfordindy: the ceremony will take place in harpur square, bedford with proceedings starting at 12.30pm...
- Gandalf1948: joseph van aken, "i tre figli di sir henry harpur".
(john harpur - 1734/5-1745 -, henry harpur poi sir henry 'harry' harpur, 6° bt - 1739-1789 - e charles harpur, poi maggiore charles harpur - 1741–1770).
- Suttonccscorer: sutton v sunbury
sunbury 168/8 (37)
end of over 37: 1 run, matt harpur 15 (39), jonathan charles 0 (2), dane currency 18-2-68-5
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- Suttonccscorer: sutton v sunbury
sunbury 169/8 (38)
end of over 38: 1 run, matt harpur 16 (44), jonathan charles 0 (3), ben rutherford 9-1-16-2
0 0 0 0 1 0
- Suttonccscorer: sutton v sunbury
sunbury 173/8 (39)
end of over 39: 4 runs, matt harpur 20 (50), jonathan charles 0 (3), dane currency 19-2-72-5
0 0 0 0 4 0
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