‘Possum’ A Lay of New Chumland (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
He never drew a sword to fight a dozen foes alone,Nor gave a life to save a life no better ...
HE LONGED to be a Back-Blocks Bard, And fame he wished to win-He wrote at night and studied hard (He read The ...
You argue - as sympathy governs your bias -That Wisdom distributes the capon and crust,Indulging the sinful, and stinting the ...
SOMEWHERE in the mystic future, on the road to Paradise,There's a very pleasant country that I've dreamed of once or ...
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,And the march was heavy on man and brute;For the Spirit of Drought ...
'You talk of snakes,' said Jack the Rat,'But blow me, one hot summer,I seen a thing that knocked me flat ...
So the world of odds and evens ceased to trouble Harry Stephens, and the niggard road no longer echoes to ...
The old man sat upon his swag his eyes were red and bleared.I doubt he'd had a wash for days ...
Come, all you jolly natives, and I'll relate to youSome of my observations — adventures, too, a few.I've travelled about ...
If you want a situation, I'll just tell you the planTo get on to a station, I am just your ...
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
Now the tent poles are rotting, the camp fires are dead, And the possums may gambol in trees overhead; I ...
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
Australia's a big country An' Freedom's humping bluey, An' Freedom's on the wallaby Oh! don't you hear 'er cooey? She's ...
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