From a Picture     The sun has gone down, spreading wide on    The sky-line one ray of red fire;    Prepare the soft cushions of Sidon,    Make ready the rich…

    A burning glass of burnished brass,    The calm sea caught the noontide rays,    And sunny slopes of golden grass    And wastes of weed-flower seem to blaze.    Beyond the shining…

    Oh! wind that whistles o�er thorns and thistles,    Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf;    Why should he labour to help his neighbour    Who feels too reckless…

    Dear Bell, I enclose what you ask in a letter,    A short rhyme at random, no more and no less,    And you may insert it, for want…

    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…

�Gillian�s dead, God rest her bier,    How I loved her many years syne;    Marion�s married, but I sit here,    Alive and merry at three-score year,    Dipping my nose in…

�Beneath the greenwood bough.�    – W. Scott.     Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows,    Though laden with faint perfume,    �Tis the fragrance rare that the bushman knows,    The…

�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…

A Preface and a Piracy Prologue     Of borrow�d plumes I take the sin,    My extracts will apply    To some few silly songs which in    These pages scatter�d lie….

    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…