Eyes In The Air (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
Our guns are a league behind us, our target a mile below,And there's never a cloud to blind us from ...
Our guns are a league behind us, our target a mile below,And there's never a cloud to blind us from ...
To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.Who has e'er been at Paris must needs know the ...
When crowding folks, with strange ill faces,Were making legs, and begging places,And some with patents, some with merit,Tired out my ...
There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard-Cunning, treacherous, suspicious-feeling softly-grasping hard-Brainy, yet without the ...
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
You that at ev'ry trifling Cross repine, And tax the Ways of Providence Divine; You that to ev'ry soft Temptation ...
Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'?quipagePrennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,Le navire glissant sur ...
I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice,By the side of Snowy River with a horse they ...
Once on a time a general whose name is handed downTo the present generation as a name of high renown ...
He lived in Mundaloo, and Bill McClosky was his name,But folks that knew him well had little knowledge of that ...
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
Oh! once I believed in a woman's kiss, I had faith in a flattering tongue, For lip to lip was ...
It is truly as lucid as lucid can be; It is plain as the nose on your faceThough the tactics ...
Brothers!(I address myself to that chosen few -- which includes you,My dear reader -- whoAre men of understanding, bright intellect ...
A life that is free as the bandit's of old,When Rome was the prey of the warriers boldWho knew how ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
We buried old Bob where the bloodwoods wave At the foot of the Eaglehawk; We fashioned a cross on the ...
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down At the time of our local racing; And I'd earned a ...
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