The Ballad of the Elder Son (Henry Lawson Poems)
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
"Whare hae ye been a' day, My boy, Tammy? Whare hae ye been a' day, My boy, Tammy?" "I 've been by burn and ...
Success knows no diminution, For failure hovers so near, That with trace of slight dilution, Success must cease to appear. We look in vain ...
'Whar hae ye been a' day, my boy Tammy? Whar hae ye been a' day, my boy Tammy?''I've been by burn ...
"Faces, faces, faces of the streaming marching surge, Streaming on the weary road, toward the awful steep,Whence your glow and glory, ...
The rising sun had crowned the hills, And added beauty to the plain;O grand and wondrous spectacle! That only nature could explain.I ...
Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer.They are spirits of wild sense. Nobody nearComes upon their pastures. There a ...
Mohan comes herding the cows,crown of peacock feathers on his head,garland of forest flowers on his chest,in his hand a ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
DEMETER PERSEPHONE HECATE HERMES In the vale of Elusis DEMETERHail, goddess, from the midmost caverned vale Of Samothracia, where with ...
(The exile Meliboeus finds Tityrus in possession of his own farm,restored to him by the emperor Augustus, and a conversation ...
THEY call me now the Indian Priest,Their fathers' fathers did not so,The very Mandan name hath ceasedFrom speech since fifty ...
"A man's a man," says Robert Burns, "For a' that and a' that"; But though ...
(Baa, baa, black sheep! — whose fault but your ownThat you're here on the western prairie, herding the sheep alone, ...
WHEN Spring luxuriant scatters new delights,The mountain's verdant slope our steps invites,To crown whose lofty brow o'er-bending treesWave their thick ...
The British guns have spoken And Bill may lose his crown, The German line is broken, ...
OUT of one heart the birds and I together,Earth hushed in twilight,Low through the live-oaks hung heavy with silver,Gemmed with ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Maybe not as bad as herding cats wrangling felines, not that tough the not yet awake children a bit more ...
Because the road to our house is a back road, meadowlands punctuated by gravel quarry and lumberyard, there are unexpected ...
We couldn't sit and study for the law; The stagnation of a bank we couldn't stand; For our riot blood ...
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