The Lights of Cobb & Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone - When the nations ...
'E was warned agin' 'er -- That's what made 'im look; She was warned agin' 'im -- That is why ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before In the routine crashes-- and our ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
TO THE HONOURED MR ENDYMION PORTER, GROOM OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY Sweet country life, to such unknown, Whose ...
do you think an old heart can't sing do you think an old heart can't dance with a love that ...
there are eyes that refuse to exist in the fresh air - they are invented by the lies of paint ...
you may not be willing to notice me i have an awkward sense of myself ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile, Spreads its curious opinion To ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
(A Pharaoh Speaks.) I said, "Why should a pyramid Stand always dully on its base? I'll change it! Let the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loricand low-browed ...
I. June was not over Though past the fall, And the best of her roses Had yet to blow, When ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
AS Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, ...
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
they found him walking along the freeway all red in front he had taken a rusty tin can and cut ...
Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are: the false silence of sound drowning sound, and there--proud, ...
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
Now ye gallant Sydney boys, who have left your household joys To march across the sea in search of glory, ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
'Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of November, Which the people of Dundee and ...
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain -- Almost as if ...
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