The Professional Wanderer (Henry Lawson Poem)
When you've knocked about the country-been away from home for years; When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your ...
When you've knocked about the country-been away from home for years; When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
Out in the woods in the city, tracks in the snow marking the territory of the many denizens of this ...
Mr. Ramsbottom went to the races, A thing as he'd ne'er done before, And as luck always follers beginners, Won ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
I How warm this woodland wild Recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here ; And this sweet bed of ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and ...
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
FRIEND of the Poet, tried and leal, Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal; Alake, alake, the meikle deil Wi' ...
Long ago in a poultry yard One dull November morn, Beneath a motherly soft wing A little goose was born. ...
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment, From ...
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
This salt in the saltcellar I once saw in the salt mines. I know you won't believe me, but it ...
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be ...
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
Said a Sov'reign to a Note, In the pocket of my coat, Where they met in a neat purse of ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a ...
Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways, My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant, I set my face ...
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...
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