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 ...
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
They proved we could not think nor see, They proved we could not write,They proved we drank the day away And raved ...
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 ...
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
OUT in the west, where runs are wide, And days than ours are hotter,Not very far from Lachlan Side There dwelt a ...
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
WHEN I tell a tale of virtue and of injured innocence,Then my publishers and lawyers are the densest of the ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,For the wrong we have taken part in and ...
I WORKED with father in the bush At splitting rails and palings.He never was unkind to me, Although he "had his failings:"And ...
A public parlour in the slums, The haunt of vice and villainy,Where things are said unfit to hear, And things are done ...
It was the King of Virland -0 he was angry then -That rode to crush rebellionWith twenty thousand men.His enemies ...
The Russian march is soft and slow,Through dust and heat, or slush and snow,When the Russian skies hang grey and ...
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 ...
'Twas in a tug-of-war where I-the guvnor's hope and pride-Stepped proudly on the platform as the ringer on my side;Old ...
They know us not in England yet, their pens are overbold;We're seen in fancy pictures that are fifty years too ...
Oh, Great White Czar of Russia, who hid your face and ran,You've flung afar the grandest chance that ever came ...
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
PART I Queen Hilda rode along the lines, And she was young and fair; And forward on her shoulders fell ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
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