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Born in January 23, 1813 / Died in June 10, 1868 / Australia / English

Poems by Charles Harpur

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Freedom in Faith

...   The gathered tones of their stirr’d depths agree ...

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A Dream of the Orient

... Wide round us galleried walls extend, ...

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The Voice of the Swamp Oak

... Hath made those boughs the lute of themes ...

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Change and Death

... All things are rounded by change, and are perishing— ...

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The Emigrant's Vision

... “O stranger!” she said, “hast thou fled from the home ...

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To My Young Countryman D.H.D.

...  When more and more long surgy rolls come booming ...

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The Witch of Hebron

... To the top Of mountainous power, though roughened with unrest, ...

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The End of the Book

...  I know that, hive-like, it with love is stored, ...

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Song

... There’s a path to redemption—but that we shall miss ...

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Fragments from 'Genius Lost'

...  Those deathless strains that witched the world of old ...

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'And Wonder Ye Not If His Speech Be Uncouth'

... Where the savage whooped and the wild dog cried ...

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A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest

... Its shards flame out like gems on fire ...

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How Full of God

...  The more that they so richly glow, ...

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The Cloud

... And then wide-flashed throughout her full-grown form ...

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Virginal Love

... That to my thought ’twere sweet to sleep ...