The Shanty On The Rise (Henry Lawson Poem)
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
The fireplace was eager to put a fullstop, in the sentence where the road of my dreams stuck upon the ...
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...
to the seaside to the seaside to the change and peace of mind to the easy la- zy holiday the ...
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
In the whisper of the wind as I shovel the drive in the midst of the storm the crackle of ...
random connection to long forgotten facts scraps of thoughts deep within my consciousness triggered by a word, a conversation, music, ...
Sitting still, quiet, alone, in the living room of my boyhood alone with my thoughts after the Christmas day watching ...
You were my first love Gone when I was thirteen On May Day, your day. Your smiling face and the ...
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here. No, ...
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize in the ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Gone are the days when you could walk on water. When you could walk. The days are gone. Only one ...
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
1 We are reading the story of our lives which takes place in a room. The room looks out on ...
Young Croesus went to pay his call On Colonel Sawbones, Caxton Hall: And, though his wound was healed and mended, ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
In Baltimore there lived a boy. He wasn't anybody's joy. Although his name was Jabez Dawes, His character was full ...
Chant we the story now Tho' in a ...
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
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