 They are rhymes rudely strung, with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds. Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses, Sere woodlands, and sad wildernesses,...  The British Empire Series: Australasia - Page 1751900Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 514 lehte
...compare very favorably with anything that poet ever wrote. The following are the opening stanzas : — " They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds ; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1898 - 60 lehte
...South of England and the South of Australia. None of his verses are more familiar than the Swinburnian dedication to Major Whyte-Melville of the Bush Ballads...As we all know, many of these bright blossoms have corresponding strong odours, and the very wattle, which, in a later stanza, he so beautifully characterises,... | |
 | Adam Lindsay Gordon - 1901 - 270 lehte
...AND SMOKE DRIFT.] Buab Ballabs & Galloping IRb^mee. A DEDICATION. TO THE AUTHOR OF " HOLMBY HOUSE." THEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | Percy Fritz Rowland - 1903 - 360 lehte
...Gordon the limitations of his muse. His verses are, he says in his dedication to Whyte Melville : " Rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds." * If we put aside his philosophic musings, mostly unoriginal in form and matter, we see that much of... | |
 | 1884 - 646 lehte
...the source of his inspiration sprang from the land of his adoption rather than that of his birth. " They are rhymes rudely strung, with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds. Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses, Sere woodlands, and... | |
 | Bertram Stevens - 1906 - 342 lehte
...outlawed years, her early doom, And despair—despair—beyond the tomb? 21 L1ndsay . A DEDICATION THEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and sad... | |
 | Robert Pickett Scott - 1907 - 458 lehte
...bitterness, wrath, and fear, — Saying — MAN 1s DISTANT, BUT GOD 1s NEAR. T. Pringle. A Dedication | HEY are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | 1908 - 1476 lehte
...promise to do better. I am, with true heart, your faithful servant. A NATIVE SING-SONG. BY MF QUINLAN. " They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...bright blossoms are scentless And songless bright birds ; Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | 1908 - 876 lehte
...promise to do better. I am, with true heart, your faithful servant. A NATIVE SING-SONG. BY MF QUINLAN. " They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...bright blossoms are scentless And songless bright birds ; Where with fire and fierce drought on her tresses Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1908 - 582 lehte
...452 to the Bush Ballads deserve to be quoted, though the promise they hold out was never fulfilled : They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of...blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodlands and... | |
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