Cyprus Brig (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Poor Tom Brown from Nottingham, Jack Williams and poor JoeThey were three gallant poacher boys their country well does knowAnd ...
Poor Tom Brown from Nottingham, Jack Williams and poor JoeThey were three gallant poacher boys their country well does knowAnd ...
When peevish flaws his soul have stirredTo fretful tears for crossed desires,Obedient to his mother's wordMy child to banishment retires.As ...
My name is Ben Hall from Urunga I came,The cause of my turn out you all know the same;I was ...
In the veins of the calix foams and glows The blood of the mantling vine, But oh! in the bowl ...
In the veins of the calix foams and glows The blood of the mantling vine, But oh! in the bowl ...
The lover to his lass: I have fallen before your door.I came to ask for alms and have lost my ...
We hear a great commotion 'Bout the ship that comes to grief, That founders in mid-ocean, Or is driven on ...
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
"You're bloody right - I was a Red," The Man from Cook's morosely said. And if our chaps had won ...
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the ...
The meal was o'er, the lamp was lit, The family sat in its glow; The Mother never ceased to knit, ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
'Twas in a pub in Battersea They call the "Rose and Crown," Quite suddenly, it seemed to me, The Lord ...
Upspoke the culprit at the bar, Conducting his own case: 'Your Lordship, I have gone to far, But grant me ...
Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalized his pen; Fused in his brain-pan, else a blank, heavens of ...
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Is't ...
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill! How doth my heart with anguish thrill! For he, our chief, our Robin Hood, ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
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