The Fairy West (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
Farther up the gorge the sea's voice fainted and ceased.We heard a new noise far away ahead of us, vague ...
Far back in the days when the blacks used to ramble In long single file 'neath the evergreen tree,The wool-teams in ...
We have left Gul Kach behind us, Are marching on Apozai,--Where pleasure and rest are waiting To welcome us by and by.We're ...
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,And the march was heavy on man and brute;For the Spirit of Drought ...
OLD BILLY-battered, brown and black With many days of camping,Companion of the bulging sack, And friend in all our tramping:How often on ...
He played by the river when he was young.He raced with rabbits along the hills,He fished for minnows, and climbed ...
Glint of gumtrees in the dawn,so million coloured: bush wind-bornemagpie-music, rising, falling;and voices of the stockmen calling.Bellowing of cattle: stamping,impatient ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
Fort Dearborn is a strong and goodly place,And o'er the frontier looks with valiant faceTo greet the hostile tread of ...
The Eastern day was well-nigh o'er When, parched with thirst and travel sore, Two of McPherson's flanking corps Across the ...
With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer, 'Tis his step upon the threshold; "what is it brings ...
'Twas in the long ago,'Twas in the age of woodsOf Young America,That moving, rattling, slowTowards the Western plain,A single settler's ...
To say we've done it all before is not to bend the truth and though we've lost our youth the ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
The drought is down on field and flock, The river-bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before ...
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