The Old Bush School (John O Brien Poems)
'Tis a queer, old battered landmark that belongs to other years;With the dog-leg fence around it, and its hat about ...
'Tis a queer, old battered landmark that belongs to other years;With the dog-leg fence around it, and its hat about ...
I'm de only one left ob de Colony niggers; How things do meander away!When dey count my yeahs dey break down ...
The cypress swamp around me wraps its spell,With hushing sounds in moss-hung branches there,Like congregations rustling down to prayer,While Solitude, ...
I have seen a gum-tree,Scarred by the blazeOf the pioneer axe,Mend after long days;Lip to lip shutOf the separate bark,Till ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Gelett Burgess' original poem…A Purple Cow I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I ...
Come, let us sing with a right good ring (Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)Of any old, sunny ...
Six o'clock. From the railway yard The engine toots; careering hard, A milk-cart rattles by and stops; ...
A bright sun and a loosened rein, A whip whose pealing soundRings forth amid the forest trees ...
Not sweeter to the storm-tossed mariner Is glimpse of home, where wife and children wait To welcome him with kisses ...
I walked to the green gum-treeBecause the day was hot;A snake could be anywhereBut that time I forgot.The Duckmaloi lazed ...
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
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