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 ...
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...
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 ...
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 ...
I THOUGHT that silence would be best, But I a call have heard,And, Victor, after all the rest, I well might say ...
They were "ratty" they were hooted by the meanest and the least,When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago ...
Are you coming, Ivan, coming?-Ah, the ways are long and slow,In the vast land that we know not-and we never ...
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
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 ...
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
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 ...
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 ...
Our hull is seldom painted, Our decks are seldom stoned;Our sails are patched and cobbled And chains by rust marooned.Our rigging is ...
THE MOTOR CAR is sullen, like a thing that should not be;The motor car is master of Smart Society.'Twas born ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
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 ...
He never drew a sword to fight a dozen foes alone,Nor gave a life to save a life no better ...
The strangest things and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,To the chaps and fellers and coves ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
The night came down thro' Deadman's Gap, Where the ghostly saplings bentBefore a wind that tore the fly From many a digger's ...
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
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 ...
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
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