The Old Place (Blanche Edith Baughan Poems)
SO the last day's come at last, the close of my fifteen year- The end of the hope, an' the ...
SO the last day's come at last, the close of my fifteen year- The end of the hope, an' the ...
As first I remember him: A red man, and tall, Great Toll, the blacksmith, filled my childish eye.At its first ...
Good day to you, Misther skealmaisther, the evenin' is desperate fine, I thowt I wad gie ye a call ...
O, fellow Australians, listen, attend: We must cease our contemptuous swearingAnd cursing and sneering at Bull's colored friend, For our ...
Why! Bobbie, so thou's coom agean! I'm fain to see thee here;It's lang sin I've set een on thee, ...
Our baker, Mr Brackenby, toiler in the night,Was a lean, tall, glum man whose face was very white;A brooding man ...
We were living in a flat; it was number eighty-three.At eighty-four the Barleys lived, a fearsome man was he.He had ...
I'm very unhappy, tho' nothing I've done.I'll tell you the cause of my sorrow;To-morrow my darling is leaving the run,She ...
Mr Fitzmickle, the martinet, Stern lord of his house and kin,Is a small, bald man, and a cricket fan Since ...
Timothy Winters comes to schoolWith eyes as wide as a football pool,Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:A blitz of ...
The happiest nights I ever know Are those when I've No place to go, And the missus says ...
I've sipped a rich man's sparkling wine, His silverware I've handled. I've placed these battered legs of mine 'Neath tables ...
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
You've 'eard 'ow young Albert Ramsbottom, In the Zoo up at Blackpool one year, With a stick and 'orse's 'ead ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
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