The Rhymes of Sym (C J Dennis Poems)
Nobody knew why it should be so;Nobody knew or wanted to know. It might have been checked had but someone ...
C J Dennis Poems on Hair (30 Poems)
The Stones of Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh, In the end of the year umteen;Of the Glugs of ...
Emily Ann (C J Dennis Poems)
Government muddles, departments dazed,Fear and confusion wherever he gazed; Order insulted, authority spurned, Dread and distraction wherever he turned -Oh, ...
Git-Yer-Gun (C J Dennis Poems)
Thus it happened .... Let me mention, lest I raise an unsought quarrel, This occurred in times long vanished, in ...
The Growth of Sym (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Sym was a Glug; and 'tis mentioned soThat the tale reads perfectly plain as we go. In his veins ...
The Intro (C J Dennis Poems)
'Er name's Doreen…Well spare me bloomin' days!You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick! Yes, me, that kids ...
Red Robin (C J Dennis Poems)
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I wokeI saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words ...
The Wooer (C J Dennis Poems)
I nearly fell fair in my tracks.I'm trudgin' homeward with my axe When I come on her suddenly. "I wonder ...
Old Bob Blair (C J Dennis Poems)
I got so down to it last night, With longin' for what could not be,That nothin' in the world seemed ...
A Bush Christmas (C J Dennis Poems)
The sun burns hotly thro' the gumsAs down the road old Rogan comes - The hatter from the lonely ...
The Boon of Discontent (C J Dennis Poems)
Once an anthropoidal ape, Hairy, savage, strange of shape,On a day that was excessively B.C., In a forest damp ...
Grey Thrush (C J Dennis Poems)
Grey thrush was in the wattle tree, an', "Oh, you pretty dear!"He says in his allurin' way; an' I remarks, ...
The Reaper in the Bush (C J Dennis Poems)
He was lyin' on his bunk, In the hut behind the mill,Ravin' like a man wild drunk, Never silent, ...
Suburbia – A Yearn (C J Dennis Poems)
O man with a Position, prithee tell,How is't you mould your sal'ried life so well;Holding in lofty scorn that lowly ...
Old Town Types No. 6 – Flash Phil (C J Dennis Poems)
Still I've the picture of him -- Flash Phil Galloway; In a shining dog-cart driving down the road;Spanking ponies dashing ...
Why! (C J Dennis Poems)
Sisters!I've thought o'er this until my brain has blisters.Are you, indeed, such valiant resistersOf all the charm, the grace, the ...
Old Town Types No. 10 – Big Doc Littlejohn (C J Dennis Poems)
Big Doc. Littlejohn, and ugly man and tall,He wasn't very graceful, no part of him was small;Big, frame, big head, ...
Youth Revisited (C J Dennis Poems)
Can this be the old town of wheat-teams and saddle-hacks, Of Ted Toll's smithy, with the anvil ringing clear,Of stacks ...
Farewell Cable Tram (C J Dennis Poems)
Now a sad farewell to the cable-tram, Staunch friend of the quieter days,That glided down thro' a leisured town Ere ...
Quantum Sufficit (C J Dennis Poems)
I only said this German planHad points, remarked the small, meek man. "I merely said an extra wife Might add ...
The Swagman (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, he was old and he was spare;His bushy whiskers and his hairWere all fussed up and very greyHe said ...
Aesthete in the Avenue (C J Dennis Poems)
Within the wooded avenue I stood, And I was proud.I looked upon the scene and found it good; For here, ...
A Few Lines to Beauty (C J Dennis Poems)
Girls!You with the bobbed hair or Mary Pickford curls,Likewise you others Who still adopt the hair-dressing style, That makes the ...
Accent Conscious (C J Dennis Poems)
Trouble brews along the border for the word has got around That blokes an' coves an' coots must mind their ...
Sanctuary Scorned [1936] (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, is there not one place on earthWhere man's goodwill has gone from birthThro' adolescence, with its rage,Into a kindly, ...
My Scenario (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, I've got a lovely story that I've thought out all myself. It will make a gorgeous picture, I am ...
Healesville (C J Dennis Poems)
Healesville is a smiling lass, 'Mid her encircling hills,Where down full many a mountain pass The gold of wattle spills.She ...
Mad, But Not So Mad (C J Dennis Poems)
Though our eye in recent seasons Has a wild and glassy glare,And we fail to offer reasons For the straws ...
Mother’s Day (C J Dennis Poems)
Matriarchy's coming fast, Matriarchy's here!Man's supremacy at last Finds the end is near.Since the days of troglodytes, Man, the lord ...
Beauty’s Blemish (C J Dennis Poems)
You are as young, O lady mine, As ere you were in olden days,Your lips are red, your blue eyes ...