Fancies



From Wellington Terrace.
  WHITE stars above, red stars beneath,
 And o'er the bay the brooding hills:
 No murmur, save a quiet breath
 That faintly through the darkness thrills,
 The bay with shadowed lights a-blur;
 On high a glow that waves and wanes;
 And through the city here and there
 The red-lit streets—like living veins!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCDCEFGF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 341
Words 56
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Arthur Henry Adams

 · 1872 · Lawrence

Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.  more…

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