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Love that art enlargéd As the sun! Shine upon the bride-life Here begun,…
Robert Crawford was an Australian poet. Crawford was born in Doonside, New South Wales, the son of Robert Crawford senior, and was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and the University of Sydney. Crawford settled on a farm as his forefathers had done, but not being successful, became a clerk in Sydney and afterwards had a typewriting business. Some of Crawford's poems were published in The Bulletin and other periodicals. Crawford is believed to have been the first prize-winning haiku poet published in Australia, in The Bulletin on 12 August 1899. In 1904 a small collection, Lyric Moods:Various Verses, was published in Sydney. An enlarged edition was later published in Melbourne retitled simply Lyric Moods (1909). In 1921 another volume, Leafy Bliss, was published, and an enlarged edition appeared three years later. Crawford died suddenly at Lindfield, Sydney, on 13 January 1930. Not a great deal is known about Crawford; he was short of stature, poetical in spirit. He mixed little in literary circles and seems to be forgotten a few years after his death. The statement that he was educated at The King's School originally appeared in the Bookfellow, and may have come direct from Crawford. If so there is no reason to doubt it, yet in the records of The King's School of his period the only R. Crawford is listed as Richard Crawford. It was also not possible to identify him positively with the Robert James G. W. Crawford who graduated B.A. at the University of Sydney in 1912, when the poet was about 44 years of age. Crawford is represented in some of the anthologies, and A. G. Stephens thought highly of his work. His work has a delicate charm and, though at times one fears it will not rise above merely pretty verse, in some of his quatrains and lyrics Crawford does succeed in writing poetry of importance. Perhaps, as Stephens once suggested, he may be better appreciated in the 21st century.)
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In life's exigencies men have been known To pass themselves, and to attain to more Than hope; as if in combat with the gods The god in them secured supremacy.
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The little feet that run to me, The little hands that strive To touch me at the heart, and find The heart in me alive:…
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She had an other-worldly air, So like a flower she grew, As if her thoughts and feelings were The only life she knew.…
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When I did name her little lost one, she Brushed from her eyes the precious drops of love, As if her memory with his sweet name shaken Trembled, and shed its dew.
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Music, with the tears in it, Through my soul is ringing, Moods like bodies flame and flit Through the spirit's singing;…
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We whom to-night Love keeps awake For his own joy, may one day break Our fast in some Lethéan cave, When we but a faint memory have,…
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Bring me my robes and crown! I must make a brave end, Charmian, fitting the renown Of Antony's friend.…
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A little island in the river There is, round which the breezes quiver Like sweet birds that would stay A moment on their way,…
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Here within the half-light 'tween the night and day Upon the sands I lie, with thoughts that idly stirr'd Seem, as in a dream, with life and death to play, As o'er the sea there fl…
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Her maiden dreams were redolent of love, Warm-bosomed as she breathed the passionate air Of old romance, and did in fancy move 'Mong the gay knights who died for ladies fair;…
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This fair woman who is dead (Sung so sweet of long ago) Lies not in a mortal bed — Song has made her couch to grow…
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I might not have it then — I might not, yet She was so near to me, could I forget She might be nearer? There was in her eyes — What shall I say? — a hint of the sunrise…
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At the back of the brain a picture lies Of all we have been and done, And ever and then a color flames In the shadow of thought's sun.…
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The sky grows white with the moon, And the sea yearns up to the night As the soul to an unknown height, Drawn thence by a starry rune.…
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