The Fire At Ross’s Farm (Henry Lawson Poems)
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
Poems about drought (31 Poems)
Wide Lies Australia (Henry Lawson Poem)
Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity - all states in one. Never has Custom ...
Andy’s Gone With Cattle (Henry Lawson Poems)
Our Andy's gone to battle now 'Gainst Drought, the red marauder; Our Andy's gone with cattle now Across the Queensland ...
Out Back (Henry Lawson Poem)
The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Cain and Abel (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
A BROTHER IN NEED (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
NOW, rallying once if ne'er again, With flag at half-mast flown, A people in dire need and strain Mans Tyra's ...
The World (George Herbert Poem)
Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs ...
Last Will And Testament (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
Comrades, if I don't live to see the day -- I mean,if I die before freedom comes -- take me ...
In The Moonlight (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O lonely workman, standing there In a dream, why do you stare and stare At her grave, as no other ...
A Dedication (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
Seven Trumpets (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
As the first trumpet blew, I saw hail and fire, mingled with blood too. It was cast to the ground, ...
Springs in Africa (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A prayer for the continent that there would be springs in Africa that the land would know waters rising from ...
After Long Drought (Mark van Doren Poem)
After long drought, commotion in the sky; After dead silence, thunder. Then it comes, The rain. It slashes leaves, and ...
Wordsworth (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls Among the mountains, and thy song is fed By living springs far up ...
Cassandra (Hilda Doolittle Poem)
O Hymen king. Hymen, O Hymen king, what bitter thing is this? what shaft, tearing my heart? what scar, what ...
To lose thee — sweeter than to gain (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To lose thee -- sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. 'Tis true the drought is destitute, But ...
The Logic Of This State (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
Moocooboola Dam (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
Blame Katrina, or Larry. (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You may have heard a dumb-ass claim that Katrina, a hurricane, is to blame for current stress upon our fiscal ...
Another barbeque tonight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It rained throughout the night, a truly welcome sound that eases sleep although we barely slept - we were distressed ...
Lyric of Love to Leah (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Lyric of Love to Leah (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
Ohio (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
The Rose (William Browne Poem)
A ROSE, as fair as ever saw the North, Grew in a little garden all alone; A sweeter flower did ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...