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 ...
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 ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
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 ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
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 ...
"Call that a yarn!" said old Tom Pugh, "What rot! I'll lay my hatI'll sling you a yarn worth more nor ...
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
You'd call the man a senseless fool,- A blockhead or an ass,Who'd dare to say he saw the ghost Of Mount Victoria ...
I THOUGHT that silence would be best, But I a call have heard,And, Victor, after all the rest, I well might say ...
Are you coming, Ivan, coming?-Ah, the ways are long and slow,In the vast land that we know not-and we never ...
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 ...
They proved we could not think nor see, They proved we could not write,They proved we drank the day away And raved ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Comes the British bulldog first-solid as a log-He's so ugly in repose that he's a handsome dog;Full of mild benevolence ...
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
The shipping-office clerks are 'short,' the manager is gruff-'They cannot make reductions,' and 'the fares are low enough.'They ship us ...
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 ...
'Where are you going with your horse and bike, And the townsfolk still at rest?Where are you going, with your swag ...
THE MOTOR CAR is sullen, like a thing that should not be;The motor car is master of Smart Society.'Twas born ...
It was old Jerry Brown, Who'd an office in town,And he used to get jocular, very; And he'd go to the Shore When ...
THERE WAS a Squatter in the land- So runs the truthful tale I tell-There also were three cornstalks, and There also was ...
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