Confiteor Adam Lindsay Gordon The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing ; The skies are clear, and the dawn is bright, Tho’ the bar of the bay is fleck’d with white, And the wind is fitfully wailing ;...
Cito Pede Preterit Aetas Adam Lindsay Gordon A mellower light doth Sol afford, His meridian glare has pass’d And the trees on the broad and sloping sward Their lengthening shadows cast. ‘Time flies.’ The current will be no joke, If swollen by recent rain, To...
By Wood And Wold Adam Lindsay Gordon Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though laden with faint perfume, ‘Tis the fragrance rare that the bushman knows, The scent of the wattle bloom. Two-thirds of our journey at least are done, Old horse !...
By Flood And Field 2 Adam Lindsay Gordon They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds, They have bridled a hundred black.Old Ballad. ‘He turned in his saddle, now follow who dare, I ride for my country, quoth . . .’Lawrence. I REMEMBER the lowering wintry...
Borrow’D Plumes Adam Lindsay Gordon [A Preface and a Piracy] PROLOGUE OF borrowd plumes I take the sin, My extracts will apply To some few silly songs which in These pages scatterd lie. The words are Edgar Allan Poes, As any man may see, But...
Bellona Adam Lindsay Gordon Thou art moulded in marble impassive, False goddess, fair statue of strife, Yet standest on pedestal massive, A symbol and token of life. Thou art still, not with stillness of languor, And calm, not with calm boding rest; For thine is...
Ars Longa Adam Lindsay Gordon [A Song of Pilgrimage] Our hopes are wild imaginings, Our schemes are airy castles, Yet these, on earth, are lords and kings, And we their slaves and vassals ; Yon dream, forsooth, of buoyant youth, Most ready to deceive is,...
Argemone Adam Lindsay Gordon The terrible night-watch is over, I turn where I lie, To eastward my dim eyes discover Faint streaks in the sky ; Faint streaks on a faint light that dapples And dawns like the ripening of apples, Closes with darkness and...
An Exile’s Farewell Adam Lindsay Gordon The ocean heaves around us still With long and measured swell, The autumn gales our canvas fill, Our ship rides smooth and well. The broad Atlantic’s bed of foam Still breaks against our prow; I shed no tears at...
A Song of Autumn Adam Lindsay Gordon WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, When the boughs are yellow and sere? Where are the old ones that once we had,...
