Sweeney (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was ...
"Tout aux tavernes et aux filles." Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a nag? ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
I came with the rising sun and I've brought nothing but two eyes, all I have, simply two eyes, for ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
In Pat Mahoney's booze bazaar the fun was fast and free, And Ragtime Billy spanked the baby grand; While caroling ...
It's cruel cold on the water-front, silent and dark and drear; Only the black tide weltering, only the hissing snow; ...
HERE is a face that says half-past seven the same way whether a murder or a wedding goes on, whether ...
In western fields of corn and northern timber lands, They talk about me, a saloon with a soul, The soft ...
HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake? Have I sold ice to the poor in ...
Well, my daddy left home when I was three, and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this ...
When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, ...
I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job; I drives me bottle cart around the town; ...
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
There comes a time in every man's life when he thinks: I have never had a single original thought in ...
If you live along with all the other people and are just like them, and conform, and are nice you're ...
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
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