Since Then (Henry Lawson Poem)
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day -- Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- Ten years ago, from ...
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day -- Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- Ten years ago, from ...
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
With eyes that are narrowed to pierce To the awful horizons of land, Through the blaze of hot days, and ...
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began, And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a ...
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our troubles were new, In the years spent in ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
The night too quickly passes And we are growing old, So let us fill our glasses And toast the Days ...
I am poor and old and blind; The sun burns me, and the wind Blows through the city gate And ...
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; But front their silent ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson: it will ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
Howe's Final version Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the ...
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
Prayers for peace rose up in many tongues from the congregation gathered round a new pole hewn by parishioner hands ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine, Warm without Sun, and shady without rain, Fann'd by an air, that ...
While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
'Twas Saltbush Bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way to town; He crossed them over the Hard Times ...
They came from the lower levels Deep down in the Brilliant mine; From the wastes where the whirlwind revels, Whirling ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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