Archibald Thomas Strong Life Poems
- 1. Vain Death
ALL the first night she might not weep
But watched till morning came,
And when she slept at dawn, she heard
The dead man call her name.
... - 2. Sonnets Of The Empire: Australia To England
By all the deeds to Thy dear glory done,
By all the life blood spilt to serve Thy need,
By all the fettered lives Thy touch hath freed,
By all Thy dream in us anew begun;
... - 3. Sonnets Of The Empire: Dawn At Liverpool
The Sunlight laughs along the serried stone
About whose feet the wastrel tide runs free;
Light lie the shipmasts, fairy-like to see,
Athwart the royal cityâ??s splendour thrown;
... - 4. Australia To England
By all the deeds to Thy dear glory done,
By all the life blood spilt to serve Thy need,
By all the fettered lives Thy touch hath freed,
By all Thy dream in us anew begun;
... - 5. Sonnets Of The Empire:australia, 1902
Gallant is Spring along thy laughing hills,
With wattleâ??s loveliest scent and gleam of gold,
When the good rain hath quickened all thy mould,
And the hot musk thine air with incense fills.
... - 6. Grey
LADY of Sorrow! What though laughing blue,
Thy sister, mock menâ??s anguish, and the sun
Glare like a wrathful judge on many a one
That longs for night his bitter shame to rue,
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