A Meeting Of The Birds (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
As o'er my latest book I pored,Enjoying it immensely,I suddenly exclaimed 'Good Lord!'And gripped the volume tensely.'Golly!' I cried. I ...
Aw've travell'd o'er land, an aw've travell'd o'er sea,An aw've seen th' grandest lasses 'at ivver can be;But aw've nivver ...
Tender caresses of kind little sistersAre ready for you.With the birds' songs, O the charmed prince,We're waiting for you.Branch drunk ...
Blokes ~ 'ErbDo you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
I hear them speak of a Fed'ral siteWhere shall arise a city bright -Mother, where is this bonzer spot?Shall we ...
I'm a broken-hearted miner, who loves his cup to drain,Which often-times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.Roaming ...
Did you ever meet Bert? 'E's all over the town, In offices, shops an' in various places, Cocky an' ...
Come listen to my ditty, come listen to me hum,While I relate a verse or two of the professional bumWho ...
Mr Bodge, the banker, was a power in the land;His city bank had granted him an autocratic hand; For our ...
When the cranky German waggon, With its ten or fifteen bag on Comes a-jerkin' and a-joltin' down the dusty, limestone ...
'Twas a New England Cocky, as of late I've been told,Who died, so 'tis said, on account of the cold.When ...
You can't expect it! Goodness me!T'would be a dreadful policy!What sort of Ministerial dunceWould try to do two things at ...
The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane and looked out at the bright sunshiny morning. The cobble-stones of ...
There is a place of total darkness, Where wine and liquor flow; Where people that are heartbroken, Find they have ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
By the winding Wollondilly where the weeping willows weep, And the shepherd, with his billy, half awake and half asleep, ...
"Aye," said the boozer, "I tell you it's true, sir, I once was a punter with plenty of pelf, But ...
Now the autumn maize is growing, Now the corn-cob fills, Where the Little River flowing Winds among the hills. Over ...
Now when I have a cold I am careful with my cold, I consult a physician And I do as ...
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