Booth’s Drum [1] (Henry Lawson Poems)
They were "ratty" they were hooted by the meanest and the least,When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago ...
They were "ratty" they were hooted by the meanest and the least,When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago ...
He saved his soul and saved his pork, With old time preservation;He did not hold with creosote, Or new plans of salvation;He ...
WHILE o'er the Alpine cliffs I musing stray'd, And gaz'd on nature, in her charms severe,The last soft beam of parting ...
In good old times, which means, you know,The time men wasted long ago,And we must blame our brains or moodIf ...
_If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,__Shall that exclude the hope--foreclose the fear?_Unmoved by all the claims our times avow,The ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Forty Years AfterCOMRADE, yet a little further I would go before the nightCloses round and chills in darkness all the ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
Young sir, 'E sez . . . Like that . . . It made me feelRomantic like, as if me ...
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
Darwin, that diffident wise patient manWho proved that men were monkeys as they are,When working out how apes and men ...
SO, dear Fred, you're not content Though I quote the books you lent, And I've kept that spray you sent ...
WHAT am I? Ah, you know it, I am the modern Sage, Seer, savant, merchant, poet-- I am, in brief, ...
Nay, Mr Speaker, let the ideal stay, The picture that voters have in mindOf Solons in debate far leagues away ...
"Handsome? I hardly know. Her profile 's fine- Delightful, intellectual, aquiline. Her keen eyes light it; keen, yet often kind; ...
I HAD found out a gift for my fair, I had found where the cave-men were laid; Skull, femur, and ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
My beloved called to me to come and see Steve's tears, he was crying on TV; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile ...
The Honorable Ardleigh Wyse Was every fisherman's despair; He caught his fish on floating flies, In fact he caught them ...
A year or two, and grey Euripides, And Horace and a Lydia or so, And Euclid and the brush of ...
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