The Old Shanty (C J Dennis Poems)
Look at 'em! Toffs with their big cigars,Drivin' along in their motor cars.Nothin' at all like the olden daysWhen the ...
Look at 'em! Toffs with their big cigars,Drivin' along in their motor cars.Nothin' at all like the olden daysWhen the ...
I venerate economists As very learned blokes,But when in paradox they speakTheir meaning oft I vainly seek, Suspecting subtle jokes.They ...
Our sergeant-major is Bandy Burke,Of course he couldn't affordTo take a commission - he does the workAnd the credit goes ...
There ain't enough of strikes an' things, There ain't enough of strife,There ain't enough dislikes an' things In this 'ere ...
"H.M. Submarine -- is now much overdue, and must be considered lost.""I take off my ...
Half a loaf, half a loaf,Half a loaf? Urn-hum?Down through the vale of gloomSlouched the ten million,Onward th' 'ungry blokes,Crackin' ...
I've 'ad, said Dan, "a sight o' curios,But where they've gone, Lord knows!The junk I've packed around, alive an' dead,The ...
Cooee! Well, Dig, I s'pose you've 'eard that row Up in ole Blighty some ten year ago.An' it is up ...
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or ...
No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though ...
A-sittin' in the Bull and Pump With double gins to keep us cheery Says she to me, says Polly Crump" ...
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome Was quite a fistful as a kid; For when I visited his home, That ...
'Tis hard to hang a husky lad When larks are in the sky; It hurts when daffydills are glad To ...
So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went, And you're cursing all the business in a ...
Now look, you see, it's this way like, You cross the broken bridge And run the crick down till you ...
Weary and listless, sad and slow, Without any conversation, Was a man that worked on The Overflow, The butt of ...
I'd reckon his weight as eight-stun-eight, And his height as five-foot-two, With a face as plain as an eight-day clock ...
'Twas in the days of front attack; This glorious truth we'd yet to learn it -- That every "front" has ...
The Honorable Ardleigh Wyse Was every fisherman's despair; He caught his fish on floating flies, In fact he caught them ...
The boys had come back from the races All silent and down on their luck; They'd backed 'em, straight out ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
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