Ruth (Henry Lawson Poems)
All is well-in a prison-to-night, and the warders are crying 'All's Well!'I must speak, for the sake of my heart-if ...
All is well-in a prison-to-night, and the warders are crying 'All's Well!'I must speak, for the sake of my heart-if ...
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
INTRODUCTIONThe theme is ancient as the hills, With all their prehistoric glory;But yet of Corney and his friend, We've often longed to tell ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
WE SET no right above hers, No earthly light nor star,She hath had many lovers, But not as lovers are:They all were ...
The camp of high-class spielers, Who sneered in summer dress,And doo-dah dilettante, And scornful "venuses"-House agents, and storekeepers, All eager they to "bleed"-The bards ...
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like ...
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push, There'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trapFrom the ...
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
The nearer camp fires lighted, The distant beacons bright-The horsemen on the skyline Are closing in to-night!My brothers, Oh my brothers! Lie down ...
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
Oh! the Cross of deepest blue,With the bright stars shining through,That was raised, my sons, for you,On a skirt of ...
WHEN I tell a tale of virtue and of injured innocence,Then my publishers and lawyers are the densest of the ...
Bill and Jim are mates no longer-they would scorn the name of mate-Those two bushmen hate each other with a ...
NOT to the sober and staid, Leading a quiet life,But to men whose paths are laid Ever through storm and strife-Here is ...
An' SO 'e's dead in London, An' answered to the call,An' trotted through the Long Street, With 'earse an' plumes an' all?We ...
At suburban railway stations—-you may see them as you pass—-there are signboards on the platform saying "Wait here second class,"And ...
Rise Ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel!Rise ye! for the cursed tyrants crush ye ...
Rolling out to fight for England, singing songs across the sea;Rolling North to fight for England, and to fight for ...
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still, While the sun goes down in glory-And away o'er lonely plain and hill Still ...
The World is full of kindness- And not the poor alone;We Christians in our blindness Bow down to hearts of stone;The clever, ...
As it was in the beginning, so we'll find it in the end,For a lover, or a brother, or a ...
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past? In ...
Now this is a rhyme that might well be carried Gummed in your hat till the end of things:Say Good-bye when ...
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