Corny Bill (Henry Lawson Poem)
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began, And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay, Driving rain and falling tears, As the steamer wears to sea In a ...
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
O woe is me for the merry life I led beyond the Bar, And a treble woe for my winsome ...
Me that 'ave been what I've been -- Me that 'ave gone where I've gone -- Me that 'ave seen ...
By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed From the cliff where she lay in the Sun Fell the Stone ...
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps doth die; And this security, It is ...
LACON. For a kiss or two, confess, What doth cause this pensiveness, Thou most lovely neat-herdess? Why so lonely on ...
In my childhood rumors ran Of a world beyond our door- Terrors to the life of man That the highroad ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Pan came out of the woods one day,-- His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, The gray ...
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
Black riders came from the sea. There was clang and clang of spear and shield, And clash and clash of ...
O constellations of the early night, That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Zeus, Brazen-thunder-hurler, Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos, Send vengeance on these Oreads Who strew White frozen flecks of mist and cloud Over the ...
Simple things are lovely things. Rain, dropping from the eaves, Is molten silver streaming down, Upon the fallen leaves. The ...
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out ...
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
(A Negro Sermon.) Once, in a night as black as ink, She drove him out when he would not drink. ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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