The Army of the Rear (Henry Lawson Poems)
I LISTENED through the music and the sounds of revelry,And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee;I heard ...
Henry Lawson Poems (510 Poems)
O’Hara, J.P. (Henry Lawson Poems)
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 Motor Car (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE MOTOR CAR is sullen, like a thing that should not be;The motor car is master of Smart Society.'Twas born ...
The Leader and the Bad Girl (Henry Lawson Poems)
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
Cypher Seven [07] (Henry Lawson Poems)
The nearer camp fires lighted, The distant beacons bright-The horsemen on the skyline Are closing in to-night!My brothers, Oh my brothers! Lie down ...
The Friends of Fallen Fortunes (Henry Lawson Poems)
The battlefield behind us, And night loomed on the track;The Friends of Fallen Fortunes Were riding at my back.Save those who lay ...
The Horse and Cart Ferry (Henry Lawson Poems)
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 ...
In the Height of Fashion (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO at last a toll they'll levy For the passing fool who sings-Take the harp grown dull and heavy (With the dried ...
The Squatter, Three Cornstalks, and the Well (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE WAS a Squatter in the land- So runs the truthful tale I tell-There also were three cornstalks, and There also was ...
‘Tambaroora Jim’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
He never drew a sword to fight a dozen foes alone,Nor gave a life to save a life no better ...
Song of the Old Bullock-Driv (Henry Lawson Poems)
Far back in the days when the blacks used to ramble In long single file 'neath the evergreen tree,The wool-teams in ...
The Bard of Furthest Out (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE LONGED to be a Back-Blocks Bard, And fame he wished to win-He wrote at night and studied hard (He read The ...
Riding Round the Lines (Henry Lawson Poems)
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
The Ports of the Open Sea (Henry Lawson Poems)
Down here where the ships loom large in The gloom when the sea-storms veer,Down here on the south-west margin Of the western ...
Nemesis (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
The Stranger’s Friend (Henry Lawson Poems)
The strangest things and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,To the chaps and fellers and coves ...
‘Gettin’ Back’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
When we've arrived by boat or rail, and feeling pretty well, And humped our heavy gladstones to the Great Norsouth Hotel; And ...
The Green-Hand Rouseabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
Call this hot? I beg your pardon. Hot!-you don't know what it means.(What's that, waiter? lamb or mutton! Thank you-mine ...
The Southerly Buster (Henry Lawson Poems)
There's a wind that blows out of the South in the drought, And we pray for the touch of his breathWhen ...
Foreign Lands (Henry Lawson Poems)
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,Sail as far as ships can sail, and ...
Skaal (Henry Lawson Poems)
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
Johnson’ s Wonder (Henry Lawson Poems)
I'D been right round by overlands to see the world and life,And on the boat at Plymouth I met Johnson ...
The Labour Agitator (Henry Lawson Poems)
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
Since the Cities are the Cities (Henry Lawson Poems)
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
The Legend of Cooee Gully (Henry Lawson Poems)
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 Man from Waterloo (With kind Regards to Banjo) (Henry Lawson Poems)
It was the Man from Waterloo, When work in town was slack,Who took the track as bushmen do, And humped his swag out ...
The Skyline Riders (Henry Lawson Poems)
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
Billys ‘Square Affair’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
Long Bill, the captain of the push, was tired of his estate,And wished to change his life and win the ...
The Squatter’s Daughter (Henry Lawson Poems)
OUT in the west, where runs are wide, And days than ours are hotter,Not very far from Lachlan Side There dwelt a ...
Rejected (Henry Lawson Poems)
She says she's very sorry, as she sees you to the gate; You calmly say 'Good-bye' to her while standing off ...