The Martyred Democrat (C J Dennis Poems)
(Begin breezily):In Lady Lusher's drawing-room, where float the strains of ...
(Begin breezily):In Lady Lusher's drawing-room, where float the strains of ...
You beauteous ladyes, great and small,I write unto you one and all,Whereby that you may understandWhat I have suffered in ...
I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice,By the side of Snowy River with a horse they ...
Hear the loud swell of it, mighty pell mell of it,Thousands of voices all blent into one:See "hell for leather" ...
When behind her violated border, With unflinching bayonet and gun,Belgium, in heroic battle order, Met the savage onset ...
Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat, And to bait him was our chiefest form of ...
When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines Which ty'd her dear monkey so fast by the loins, Show'd his ...
IA satyr spied a Goddess in her bath,Unseen of her attendant nymphs; none knew.Forthwith the creature to his fellows drew,And ...
Alas, my dear, be you high-born, Or just a Sydney cutie,I fear you've earned a he-man's scorn Thro' failing in ...
Oh! the maidens of France are certainly fine,And I think every fellow will stateThat the "what-you-may-call-it" coiffured wayThey put up ...
False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse,Foolish night-fires, women's and children's wishes,Chases in arras, guilded emptinesse,Shadows well mounted, dreams in a ...
224I've nothing else-to bring, You know-So I keep bringing These-Just as the Night keeps fetching StarsTo our familiar eyes-Maybe, we ...
My mother would be a falconress, And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, would fly to bring back from ...
I've nothing else -- to bring, You know -- So I keep bringing These -- Just as the Night keeps ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
I Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, ...
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So ...
Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home; If the place you're at Is your habitat, You're a ...
Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was ...
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