The Professional Wanderer (Henry Lawson Poem)
When you've knocked about the country-been away from home for years; When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your ...
When you've knocked about the country-been away from home for years; When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of ...
AS you are Young, if you'l be also Wise, Danger with Honour court, Quarrels despise; Believe you then are truly ...
The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church Rang out nostalgia for the refugee Who knew the source of bells ...
The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels With her meagre pale demoralized daughter. Once when ...
The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive life, not to take sides. Leave it for children, and ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
I'M not a chicken; I have seen Full many a chill September, And though I was a youngster then, That ...
WITHIN a town where parity According to old form we see,-- That is to say, where Catholic And Protestant no ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Peoples of the world, together Join to serve the common cause! So it feeds us all for ever See to ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue ...
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
In vain you boast Poetic Names of yore, And cite those Sapho's we admire no more: Fate doom'd the Fall ...
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we ...
Oblig'd by frequent visits of this man, Whom as Priest, Poet, and Musician, I for some branch of Melchizedeck took, ...
"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin. "This tailor-shop sings not at all. Chant me a word of the twilight, Of ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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