Till All the Bad Things Came Untrue (Henry Lawson Poems)
BY blacksoil plains burned grey with drought Where desert shrubs and grasses grow,Along the Land of Furthest Out That only Overlanders know.I ...
BY blacksoil plains burned grey with drought Where desert shrubs and grasses grow,Along the Land of Furthest Out That only Overlanders know.I ...
Three droving men, some three weeks sync, Sat drinking the Queensland rum;'Twas four a.m. when twa o' them Saw jock M'Phee succumb.Hech! ...
O wha's the bride that cairries the bunchO' thistles blinterin white?Her cuckold bridegroom little dreidsWhat he sail ken this nicht.For ...
A Humorous Reading A strappin', sonsie, weel-matched pairWere Jock Macree an' Maggie Blair,An' mony wusses, said an' thinkit,They had that ...
Come in, gudeman, to your ain fireside, There's a cauld, cauld grup in the air,An' the win' blaws snell frae ...
A fiddler sits, wha has never been seen, On the ledgin' o' Boglebriggs;An' aye when the clock strikes the midnicht ...
Daft Ailie cam' in by the auld brig-en' As the sunlicht, saft an' sweet,Fell doon on the laigh, white wa's ...
There cam a man to oor toon-en',And a waesome carl was he,Snipie-nebbit, and crookit-mou'd,And gleyt o' a blinterin ee.Muckle he ...
Weary wi' roamin', I sit in the gloamin', I sit ...
Leddy"Ye'll mount, gudeman; ye'll mount and ride;Ye'll cross the burn syne doun the loch side,Then up 'mang the hills, thro' ...
When ye gang awa, JamieFar across the sea, laddie,When ye gang to Germanie,What will ye send to me, laddie?I'll send ...
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,And a' the warld to rest are gane,The waes ...
I sit afore a half-oot fire, An' I am a' my lane,Nae frien' or fremit daun'ers in, For a' my ...
Was that a knock? Wha can it be? I hirple to the door;A buirdly chiel' is stan'in' there, I never ...
Air — "Landlady, count the lawin."O weel's me on my ain man!My ain man, my ain man;O, weel's me on ...
Air — "Kind Robin lo'es me."Robin is my ain gudeman,Now match him, carlins, gin ye can,For ilk ane whitest thinks ...
HAD I the wyte, had I the wyte, Had I the wyte? she bade me; She watch'd me by the ...
Chorus-We'll hide the Cooper behint the door, Behint the door, behint the door, We'll hide the Cooper behint the door, ...
THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
On one occasion King James the Fifth of Scotland, when alone, in disguise, Near by the Bridge of Cramond met ...
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