Mostly Slavonic (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
1922: the stone porch of my Grandfather's summer houseI"I won't go with you. I want to stay with Grandpa!"That's how ...
May a fading fancy hover round a gladness that is over?May a dreamer in the silence rake the ashes of ...
JACK CORNSTALK lives in the Southern Land- What says Cornstalk John?Jack Cornstalk says in a loud firm voice: "Land of the South, ...
FRIEND, gliding near me on life's widening stream,In whose long wake star-spangled ripples gleam,And from whose prow the pioneering lightKeenly ...
Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain The ruthless summer suns burned down,And dust-storms, heralding the rain,Swept thro' the street and ...
"Soft April sunshine sweetens all the world, Yes, even the county-town with smells of spring; And life is busy where ...
Now, Batman, Prophet Batman, a hundred years ago, He looked upon this land and found it good."'Tis the place to ...
Here she hides, an aged dame. Here she dreams beside the waves.Ever baulked of modern fame And 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 ...
Here come the line-gang pioneering by, They throw a forest down less cut than broken. They plant dead trees for ...
Another search for Leichhardt's tomb, Though fifty years have fled Since Leichhardt vanished in the gloom, Our one Illustrious Dead! ...
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