Mostly Slavonic (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
In Windsor Terrace, number four, I've taken my abode-A little crescent from the street, A bight from City Road;And, hard up and ...
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
I SCORN the man-a fool at most, And ignorant and blind-Who loves to go about and boast "He understands mankind."I thought I ...
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
He comes from out the ages dim- The good Samaritan;I somehow never pictured him A fat and jolly man;But one who'd little ...
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 ...
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
I mind the river from Mount Frome To Ballanshantie's Bridge,The Mudgee Hills, and Buckaroo, Lowe's Peak, and Granite Ridge.The "tailers" in the ...
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 ...
Texas Jack, you are amusin'. By Lord Harry, how I laughedWhen I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
They took dead Cromwell from his grave, And stuck his head on high;The Merry Monarch and his men, They laughed as they ...
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
So the days of my tramping are over, And the days of my riding are done-I'm about as content as a ...
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,And across the distant timber you can SEE the flowing ...
FROM Crow's Nest here by Sydney town Where crows had nests of oldI see the Range where day goes down- The dim ...
We, three men of commerce, Striving wealth to raise,See but little promise In the coming days;Though our hearts are brittle, Hardened near to ...
Old Time is tramping close to-day-you hear his bluchers fall,A mighty change is on the way, an' God protect us ...
He has notions of Australia from the tales that he's been told-Land of leggings and revolvers, land of savages and ...
Fight through ignorance, want, and care - Through the griefs that crush the spirit;Push your way to a fortune fair, And the ...
THE gentlemen of Dickens Were mostly very poor,And innocent of grammar, And of parentage obscure;But rich or poor or thriving, Of high or ...
He was bare-we don't want to be rude- (His condition was owing to drink)They say his condition was nood, Which amounts to the ...
OH! the folly, the waste, and the pity! Oh, the time that is flung behind!They are seeking a site for ...
THERE has been many a grander deed since man had life to give, And thousands have gone to certain death, eyes ...
CLERK, corresponding, "Rooster and Comb",Here I sit idle "Thinking of home";I must be grafting- Living to earn,More correspondence, "Write by return."Clerk in employ of "Shoddy ...
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