Reedy River (Henry Lawson Poem)
Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the ...
Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the ...
A serious moment for the water is when it boils And though one usually regards it merely as a convenience ...
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And ...
1914-18 Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies ashore! For we've received orders to ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills ...
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
name meaning thread weaver or duck (these may be guesses from obscurity) ten-year faithful wife whilst her husband was gallivanting ...
Shy and Shane sat watching the rain a duck waddled by our window pane There was no sun, not anywhere ...
The creatures of the air are the creatures of creation Birds, bats, flying squirrel, flying fish, cardinals, crow, pelican, penguin, ...
A human interest story in the midst of the chaos the flooding of the Merrimack in the heart of the ...
I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice, An' things 'at girls are skeered uv ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
I'll tell you the story of Jonah, A really remarkable tale; A peaceful and humdrum existence he had Until one ...
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I've seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch ...
The wild duck startles like a sudden thought, And heron slow as if it might be caught. The flopping crows ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout Fishing ...
Cold night: the wild duck, sick, falls from the sky and sleeps awhile. (Matsuo Basho)
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
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