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 ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
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 ...
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
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 ...
PAT M'DURMER brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten : 'There are lively days before ye-commin Parlymint's dissolved!'And the boys ...
JACK DENVER died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a man;Jack ...
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 ...
He never drew a sword to fight a dozen foes alone,Nor gave a life to save a life no better ...
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room- Ah! The number is one too few-They have deemed their home and ...
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
They can't hear in West o' London, where the worst dine with the best-Deaf to all save lies and laughter, ...
LET US sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.Ladies ...
"Now tell me what can England do?" Said the Kaiser to the Spy."She can do nought, your Majesty- You rule the sea ...
I only woke this morning To find the world is fair-I'm going on for forty, With scarcely one grey hair;I'm going on for ...
REGION of damper and junk and tea, Region of pastures wide!The fairest spots in the world to me Are out on the ...
Of home, name and wealth and ambition bereft- We are children of fortune and luck:They deny there's a shred of our ...
Old Time is tramping close to-day-you hear his bluchers fall,A mighty change is on the way, an' God protect us ...
Fight through ignorance, want, and care - Through the griefs that crush the spirit;Push your way to a fortune fair, And the ...
So, sit you down in a straight-backed chair, with your pipe and your wife content,And cross your knees with your ...
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
Now this is not a dismal song, like some I've sung of late,When I've been brooding all day long about ...
THE WORLD goes round, old fellow, And still I'm in the swim,While my wife's second husband Is growing old and grim.I meet ...
'Tis a legend of the bushmen from the days of Cunningham,When he opened up the country and the early squatters ...
OLD coach-road West by Nor'-ward- Old mile-tree by the track:A dead branch pointing forward, And a dead branch pointing back.And still in ...
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