Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Australia
I SEE a Land of desperate droughts and floods:I see a land where Need keeps spreading round,And all but giants perish in the stress:I see a Land..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
William Wallace
(For the Ballarat statue of him)THIS is Scotch William Wallace. It was HeWho in dark hours first raised his face to see:Who watched the English..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Why He Loves Her
YOU ask me why I love her,As I love nought on earth?Why I'll put none above herFor sorrow or for mirth?Though there be others fairer;In spirit..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Drill
WHEN day's hard task's done,Eve's scant meal partaken,Out we steal each one,Weariless, unshaken.In small reeking squares,Garbaged plots, we..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Axiom
LET him who toils, enjoyFruit of his toiling.Let him whom sweats annoy,No more be spoiling.For we would have it beThat, weak or stronger,Not he who..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
London
CRUEL City, London, London,Where, duped slaves of devils' creeds,Men and women desperate, undone,Dream such dreams, and do such deeds:London, London..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Dedication To His Love
SWEETEST, in desperate hoursOf clouds and lightning and rain,You came like a vision of flowersAnd summer and song once again:You came, and I could..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Anarchism
'TIS not when I am here,In these homeless homes,Where sin and shame and diseaseAnd foul death comes;'Tis not when heart and brainWould be still and..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
To Queen Victoria In England
An Address on her Jubilee YearMADAM, you have done well! Let others with praise unholy,Speech addressed to a woman who never breathed upon earth,Daub..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
A Death At Sea
(Coral Sea, Australia)IDEAD in the sheep-pen he lies,Wrapped in an old brown sail.The smiling blue sea and the skiesKnow not sorrow nor wail.Dragged..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
A Street Fight
SIR, we approve your curling lip and noseAt this vile sight.These men, these women are 'brute beasts'? — Who knows,Sir, but that you are..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Love And Death
Death? is it death you give? So be it! O Death, thou hast been long my friend, and now thy palecool cheek shall have my kiss, while the faint..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
A Story
(For the Irish Delegates in Australia)DO you want to hear a story,With a nobler praise than 'glory,'Of a man who loved the right like heaven and..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
The Answer
Men and boys, O fathers, brothers,Burst these fetters round you bound.Women, sisters, wives and mothers,Lift your faces from the ground!O Democracy..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Defeat?
WHO is it speaks of defeat? —I tell you a Cause like oursIs greater than defeat can know;It is the power of powers!As surely as the earth rolls..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Art
'YES, let Art go, if it must beThat with it men must starve —If Music, Painting, PoetrySpring from the wasted hearth!'Yes, let Art go, till once..
© Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Still We Stand
Still we stand beneath the flag,With heavy hearts, yet spirits strong,Remembering a painful dayThat taught us right from wrong.Not through anger do..
© Patriot Day
A Nation’s Quiet Promise
We promise not to turn away,Not to forget, not to grow cold,To keep alive the truth of loveIn stories quietly retold.For in the smoke and shattered..
© Patriot Day
Names Written in the Sky
Their names are written not in stone,But in the lives they left behind,In every act of kindness shared,In courage rising from the mind.They walked..
© Patriot Day
The Silence at Dawn
There is a silence every year,When bells and memories appear,When flags stand still against the sky,And tears return without a cry.In that calm..
© Patriot Day
We Remember This September
We pause where time stood still that day,When morning skies turned dark with pain,When ordinary lives were changedBy loss no words could ever..
© Patriot Day
The Drum
O the drum!There is someIntonation in thy grumMonotony of utterance that strikes the spirit dumb,As we hearThrough the clearAnd unclouded..
© James Whitcomb Riley
Uncle Mart's Poem
THE OLD SNOW-MANHo! the old Snow-ManThat Noey Bixler made!He looked as fierce and sassyAs a soldier on parade!--'Cause Noey, when he made him,While..
© James Whitcomb Riley
Tugg Martin
I.Tugg Martin's tough.--No doubt o' that!And down there atThe town he come from word's bin sentAdvisin' this-here Settle-mentTo kindo' _humor_ Tugg..
© James Whitcomb Riley
Tom Van Arden
Tom Van Arden, my old friend,Our warm fellowship is oneFar too old to comprehendWhere its bond was first begun:Mirage-like before my gazeGleams a..
© James Whitcomb Riley