Adam Lindsay Gordon
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
WHERE run your colts at pasture? There hide your mares to breed? ’Mid bergs about the Ice—cap Or wove Sargasso weed; By chartless reef and channel,
I’ve danced till my shoes are outw… From ten till the hours called sma… I’ve cantered with Beauty at morn… At even made love at the ball. Light Loves for five months were…
You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ’er… An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an… But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water,
The first time that Peter denied… He shrank from the cudgel, the sco… But followed far off to see what t… Till the cock crew—till the cock c… After Gethsemane, till the cock c…
“THIS is the State above the La… The State exists for the State al… [This is a gland at the back of th… And an answering lump by the colla… Some die shouting in gas or fire;
YOUTH that trafficked long with… And to second life returns, Squanders little time or breath On his fellow—man’s concerns. Earnèd peace is all he asks
I turned—Heaven knows we women tu… To broken reeds, mistaken so for p… That shame forbids confession—a ha… (The wrong one, said the agent aft… And so flung clean across your En…
PETROLIO, vaunting his Mercede… Vows she can cover eighty miles an… I tried the car of old and know sh… But dare he ever make her? Ask hi…
THE BACHELOR ’e fights for on… As joyful as can be; But the married man don’t call it… Because ’e fights for three— For ’Im an’ ’Er an’ It
Brethren, how shall it fare with m… When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am he For whom a world has died? If it be proven that all my good,
I’VE A HEAD like a concertina:… I’ve a mouth like an old potato, a… But I’ve had my fun o’ the Corp’r… And I’m here in the Clink for a t… With a second—hand overcoat under…
“Soldier, soldier come from the wa… Why don’t you march with my true l… “We’re fresh from off the ship an’… An’ you’d best go look for a new l… New love! True love!
Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peop… Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also see these things But they do not understand. By—they are by with mirth and tear…
AS ADAM lay a—dreaming beneath… The Angel of the Earth came down,… But Adam did not need it, Nor the plough he would not speed… Singing: —"Earth and Water, Air…
China—going P. & O.'s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.'s. N.Y.K. and N.D.L.