Saint Peter (Henry Lawson Poems)
Now, I think there is a likeness 'twixt St Peter's life and mineFor he did a lot of trampin' long ...
Now, I think there is a likeness 'twixt St Peter's life and mineFor he did a lot of trampin' long ...
Once more I write a line to you, While darker shadows fall;Dear friends of mine who have been true, And steadfast through ...
He was lengthsman on the railway, and his station scarce deservedThat "pre-eminence in sorrow" of the Majesty he served,But as dear ...
THERE was a tracker in the force Of wondrous sight (the story ran):-He never failed to track a horse, He never failed ...
LO, the gods of Vice and Mammon from their pinnacles are hurledBy the workers' new religion, which is oldest in ...
Once I wrote a little poem which I thought was very fine,And I showed the printer's copy to a critic ...
ON THE moonlighted decks there are children at play,While smoothly the steamer is holding her way;And the old folks are ...
The World is full of kindness- And not the poor alone;We Christians in our blindness Bow down to hearts of stone;The clever, ...
Weary old wife, with the bucket and cow,'How's your son Jack? and where is he now?'Haggard old eyes that turn ...
IT WATCHED ME in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood's homeIt glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my ...
THEY'RE shifting old North Sydney- Perhaps 'tis just as well-They're carting off the houses Where the old folks used to dwell.Where only ...
BRAVE the anger of the wealthy! Scorn their bitter lying spite!Tell the Truth in simple language, when you know that ...
A BUSHMAN got lost in a scrub in the North,And all the long morning the searchers went forth.They swore at ...
THE CROSS-CUT and the crowbar cross, and hang them on the wall,And make a greenhide rack to fit the wedges ...
YOU'RE OFF away to London now, Where no one dare ignore you,With Southern laurels on your brow, And all the world before ...
On the summit of Mount Clarence rotting slowly in the airStands a tall and naked flagstaff, relic of the Russian ...
BEATEN back in sad dejection, After years of weary toilOn that burning hot selection Where the drought has gorged his spoil.All in ...
Why are the sheoaks forever sighing? (Sheoaks that sigh when the wind is still)-Why are the dead hopes forever dying? (Dead hopes ...
The breezes blow on the river below, And the fleecy clouds float high,And I mark how the dark green gum trees ...
Some carry their swags in the Great North-West, Where the bravest battle and die,And a few have gone to their last ...
WHILE tyrants rule the land, Beneath the Irish skies;While e'er the iron hand Upon our people lies;While sons are driven forth In other ...
I met her on the Lachlan Side —A darling girl I thought her,And ere I left I swore I'd winThe ...
"ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE!" You hear the people shouting. The walls of Mammon tremble ere they fall.ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE! Is this a time for doubting? The poets ...
There's the whitebox and pine on the ridges afar,Where the iron-bark, blue-gum, and peppermint are;There is many another, but dearest ...
I've just received a letter from a chum in Maoriland,He's working down in Auckland where he days he's doing grand,The ...
In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong,When a singer or reciter gives a story ...
FAREWELL! The gold we send shall be a token Of that which in our hearts is growing strong;You asked our sympathy, ...
THEY SAY he was thrown and run over, But that is sheer nonsense, of course:I taught him to ride when a ...
AMONG the sons of Englishmen Full many feel like real tears,For, though he reigned but scarcely ten, He bore the burden many ...
I Looked upon the lilies When the morning sun was low,And the sun shone through a lily With a softened honey glow.A ...
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