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 ...
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
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 ...
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.I see my country ruined by the wrongs that ...
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 ...
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 ...
They were "ratty" they were hooted by the meanest and the least,When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago ...
When at first in foreign parts Was her flag unfurled,England was a Gipsy lass Peddling round the world.Sailing on the Spanish Main- Everywhere ...
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
I've followed all my tracks and ways,from old bark school to Leicester Square,I've been right back to boyhood's days, and ...
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
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 ...
'Where are you going with your horse and bike, And the townsfolk still at rest?Where are you going, with your swag ...
James Patrick O'Hara the Justice of Peace,He bossed the P.M. and he bossed the police;A parent, a deacon, a landlord ...
The battlefield behind us, And night loomed on the track;The Friends of Fallen Fortunes Were riding at my back.Save those who lay ...
He never drew a sword to fight a dozen foes alone,Nor gave a life to save a life no better ...
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
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 ...
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
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