August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
Out of the clover and blue-eyed grassHe turned them into the river-lane;One after another he let them pass,Then fastened the ...
Their breath is warm and sweet. It holds the smellOf wind-brown grass and little fragrant flowers:Their supple knees have brushed ...
Our Sary Emma is possessed ter be at somethin' queer;She's allers doin' loony things, unheard of fur and near.One time ...
You lazy boy, you're here at last, You must be wooden-legged;Now, are you sure the gate is fast And all the sliprails ...
The earth smells dank, the weeds grow rank, The cold ...
It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare,You might search for grass with a microscope, ...
A lazy and careless boy was Jack,-- He would not work, and he would not play; And so ...
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
BROWNING, old fellow,Your leaves grow yellow,Beginning to mellowAs seasons pass.Your cover is wrinkled,And stained and sprinkled,And warped and crinkledFrom sleep ...
Where have the old accorjins gone? I was askin' the coves at the Show;Matt from the Mallee an' Dandenong Don, ...
I loved to toy with tuneful rhyme, My fancies into verse to weave; For as I walked my words would ...
HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake? Have I sold ice to the poor in ...
Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone, And there's some that breeds the brindle ...
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