The Last Bullet (John Farrell Poems)
Since the first human eyes saw the first timidstars break through Heaven and shine,Surely never a man was bowed down ...
Since the first human eyes saw the first timidstars break through Heaven and shine,Surely never a man was bowed down ...
He has a name which can't be brought Within the sphere of metre;But, as he's Peter by report, I'll trot him out ...
Texas Jack, you are amusin'. By Lord Harry, how I laughedWhen I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks ...
Why is everything I do in my life like a boomerang?I throw the paper airplane out the windowand the wind ...
Alone - alone!With a heart like a stone,She maketh her moanAt the feet of the trees,With her face on her ...
The old rough road, the Gulf road, it's thousand miles were spreadacross the plains and rivers, across the ridges red;it ...
Riveted to mountain slopes,The Douglas fir and pineWere as firm as ribs of steelWhere drills pneumatic whine;Ogres of our country's ...
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,But for all the ships I there did ...
In the neolithic age of our Australia, long ago,There dwelt a wise old chieftain, as you probably don't know;His royal ...
We mean to say, it never has been granted That anyone but England could decide,In the crease or at the ...
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 ...
The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer, A blue-dark knot of glittering voltage, A whiplash swimmer, a fish ...
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
That scathing word I used in scorn (Though half a century ago) Comes back to me this April morn, Like ...
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
(1) This is the sea, then, this great abeyance. How the sun's poultice draws on my inflammation. Electrifyingly-colored sherbets, scooped ...
Out where the grey streams glide, Sullen and deep and slow, And the alligators slide From the mud to the ...
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