The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
I saw it in the days gone by, When the dead girl lay at rest, And the wattle and the ...
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
We're marching along, we're gath'ring strong' We place on our right reliance, We fling in the air, for all who ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone - When the nations ...
They have eaten their fill at your tables spread, Like friends since the land was won; And they rise with ...
When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum, Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote ...
Though poor and in trouble I wander alone, With rebel cockade in my hat, Though friends may desert me, and ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride, The city bands before them, the soldiers marched beside; Oh, starched ...
Australia's a big country An' Freedom's humping bluey, An' Freedom's on the wallaby Oh! don't you hear 'er cooey? She's ...
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run ...
Man, is the Sea your master? Sea, and is man your slave? - This is the song of brave men ...
Fear ye not the stormy future, for the Battle Hymn is strong, And the armies of Australia shall not march ...
Sons of Australia, be loyal and true to her - Fling out the flag of the Southern Cross! Sing a ...
Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity - all states in one. Never has Custom ...
The Channel fog has lifted - And see where we have come! Round all the world we've drifted, A hundred ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack-- They start those awful voices o' nights That ...
The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean, The blue pool in the old garden, More than five thousand ...
The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life. The week is dealt out like a hand That children pick up ...
All week, in this rented house, sea spray and whispers of wind weave through the eucalypts, like a Sondheim melody. ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
My beloved called to me to come and see Steve's tears, he was crying on TV; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
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