The Stranger’s Friend (Henry Lawson Poems)
The strangest things and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,To the chaps and fellers and coves ...
Poems about cheques (21 Poems)
A Song Of Impossibilities (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
LADY, I loved you all last year,How honestly and well --Alas! would weary you to hear,And torture me to tell;I ...
The Mountain Splitter (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE WORKS in the glen where the waratah grows, And the gums and the ashes are tall,'Neath cliffs that re-echo the ...
Somewhere Up In Queensland (Henry Lawson Poems)
He's somewhere up in Queensland, The old folks used to say;He's somewhere up in Queensland, The people say to-day.But Somewhere (up in ...
In A/C With Ghosts (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
You can shuffle and scuffle and scold, You can rattle the knockers and knobs,Or batter the doorsteps with buckets of gold Till ...
The Brass Well (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis a legend of the bushmen from the days of Cunningham,When he opened up the country and the early squatters ...
The Lapse (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
This poem must be done to-day; Then, I 'll e'en to it. I must not dream my time away,-- I 'm sure to ...
Andy’s Return (Henry Lawson Poems)
With pannikins all rusty, And billy burnt and black,And clothes all torn and dusty, That scarcely hide his back;With sun-cracked saddle-leather, And knotted ...
Shearer’s Song (Henry Lawson Poems)
The season is over;The shearing is done;The wages are paid; andThe 'sprees' have begun.But never a shantyGets sight of my ...
The Kerrigan Boys (Edward Harrington Poems)
By jove it's hot on the track today, my flannel is soaked with sweat.I think I'll sit in the shade ...
The Song of the Sulky Stockman (C J Dennis Poems)
Come, let us sing with a right good ring (Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)Of any old, sunny ...
Click Go The Shears, Boys (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Out on the board the old shearer stands,Grasping his shears in his long, bony hands,Fixed is his gaze on a ...
The Wallaby Brigade (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
You often have been told of regiments brave and bold,But we are the bravest in the land;We're called the Tag-rag ...
Everybody’s Doing It (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We're all buying SpitfiresAs fast as we can buySpitfires and HurricanesFor battles in the sky . . . The girls ...
Song (Dominic Frank Moraes Poems)
I sowed my wild oatsBefore I was twenty.Drunkards and turncoatsI knew in plenty.Most friends betrayed me.Each new affairFurther delayed me.I ...
Money (Philip Larkin Poem)
Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: 'Why do you let me lie here wastefully? I am all you never had ...
Since Then (Henry Lawson Poem)
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day -- Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- Ten years ago, from ...
The Shearers (Henry Lawson Poem)
No church-bell rings them from the Track, No pulpit lights theirblindness-- 'Tis hardship, drought, and homelessness That teach those Bushmen ...
Crossing the Frontier (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
POET-IN-RESIDENCE (Barry Tebb Poems)
You are my dream Of the East You are my life In the West Fused in one You begin my ...