Outward Bound
Outward Bound
Original Text
The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur, ed. Elizabeth Perkins (London, Sydney and Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, 1984): 357. Online at the University of Sydney Library at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit
1Away -- away she plunges,
2 With her white sails o'er her spread,
5Still away she plunges rampant,
6 Like a lion roused to wrath,
7And the late proud wave lies humbled
8 In the form-track of her path.
9Ye ho! My gallant sailors
10 Wear her head from off the land;
11As his steed obeys the Arab
12 How she giveth to the hand!
13And the deep is her wide dwelling,
14 Her wild spouse the gipsy Wind,
15Like a soul from earth departing
16 So she leaves the coast behind!
Publication Start Year
1883
Publication Notes
Poems ( Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide: George Robinson, 1883).
RPO poem Editors
Cameron La Follette
Data entry: Sharine Leung
RPO Edition
2012
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