Poetry
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
RISING and setting suns of Liberty—
Mountainous exploits and the wrecks thick strewn
By stormy Passion o’er Life’s treacherous sea,
Relieved with shores of green delight, and boon
And starry dreams and the serene pale moon
Of Pathos,—these with all of which they be
Idealisms, are of Poesy
The bodily temple into fitness hewn,
And for its Soul, all that the mind can seize
Of beauty harmonising with the might
Of natural ties and social sympathies
And that deep spirit of Piety whose flight
Is strongest and most heavenward ’mid the blight
Of mortal misery—its Soul are these.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABABBACBCDCDDC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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