The Green Tie on the little Yellow Dog (Billy Bennett Poems)
There's a little sallow idle man lives north of Waterloo,And he owns the toughest music hall in town.There are broken ...
Poems about pubs (21 Poems)
Bird – Seed (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Pete Parraday, he isn't very wise --Or so the local gossips say -- They love to criticise His crazy ...
City of Dreams (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, we might have a marvellous city Were we only less keen on cashLess avid for things -- more's the ...
Christmas Scene (C J Dennis Poems)
To this green place the tourists troop,By twos, by threes, and group by group, Lads in bright blazers, girls in ...
Old Town Types No27 – Sergeant Mat McGillicuddy (C J Dennis Poems)
King of all the old town, gaoler, censor, too,Bane of heavy sinners doing things they shouldn't do, Terror of ...
In A Slum (Archibald Stodart Walker Poems)
I never heard him speak a kindly word, My tears were answered with a savage oath,He drank what we ...
Country Pubs (C J Dennis Poems)
We know those little country pubs, By cross-road and by creek,Where faithfully the landlord scrubs His counter once a week,And ...
A Meeting (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In from the seaLone as could be,Who should I meet with but Billy Magee --Billy MageeAs was shipmates with meOnce ...
Essential Beauty (Philip Larkin Poem)
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen ...
MCMXIV (Philip Larkin Poem)
Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns ...
The Shanty On The Rise (Henry Lawson Poem)
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
The Vagabond (Henry Lawson Poem)
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Albert and the ‘Eadsman (Marriott Edgar Poems)
On young Albert Ramsbottom's birthday His parents asked what he'd like most; He said to see t' Tower of London ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
OUR SON (Barry Tebb Poems)
Quarter to three: I wake again at the hour of his birth Thirty years ago and now he paces corridors ...
GROTTY AND THE QUARRYMAN (Barry Tebb Poems)
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
AN EVENING OF POETRY (Barry Tebb Poems)
Arriving for a reading an hour too early: Ruefully, the general manager stopped putting out the chairs. "You don't get ...
The Old Armchair (Robert William Service Poems)
In all the pubs from Troon to Ayr Grandfather's father would repair With Bobby Burns, a drouthy pair, The glass ...
T.y.s.o.n. (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Across the Queensland border line The mobs of cattle go; They travel down in sun and shine On dusty stage, ...
An answer to Various Bards (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
The Quest Eternal (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
O west of all that a man holds dear, on the edge of the Kingdom Come, Where carriage is far ...