Poetry Codex

Victorian

Charles Harpur

1813–1868

Charles Harpur (1813–1868) was an Australian-born poet, born at Windsor, New South Wales, who spent much of his life in the bush as a farmer and later a gold-fields official.

He published Thoughts: A Series of Sonnets (1845) and The Bushrangers (1853), and wrote under the influence of Wordsworth and Shelley; his best work is in longer poems.

Poems (18)

  1. Love
  2. Words
  3. A Coast View
  4. Outward Bound
  5. Hope on
  6. Balder
  7. Summer Days
  8. Angels in the Woods
  9. The Bird and the Bower
  10. All love, all power, all worship, all delight
  11. When in the green and glimmering lanes I linger
  12. O lords! o rulers of the nation!
  13. Your silken robes, with endless care
  14. A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest
  15. Andrew Marvell
  16. A Similitude
  17. A Regret
  18. An Aboriginal Mother's Lament

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