Mostly Slavonic (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
The fog peers in the windows, passes 'neath the lampsSettles in the doorways and huddles from the dampSlips inside the ...
Are you coming, Ivan, coming?-Ah, the ways are long and slow,In the vast land that we know not-and we never ...
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
The sons of the Prophet are brave men and boldAnd quite unaccustomed to fear,But the bravest by far in the ...
MoscowWhite Moscow of the pearly towers,And golden domes for praise,And chiming hours!Red Moscow of the Kremlin walls,And bloody battle ways,And ...
The Russian march is soft and slow,Through dust and heat, or slush and snow,When the Russian skies hang grey and ...
Old Ivan McIvanovitch, with knitted brow of care,Has climbed up from the engine-room to get a breath of air;He slowly ...
While the crippled cruisers stagger where the blind horizon dips,And the ocean ooze is rising round the sunken battle-ships,While the ...
All through the cold night, beating wings shadowy Sweep o'er the church-village poor,--Only one Grandam a hundred years hoary, Findeth her slumber ...
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giraldain a land no crueller, and over the wallsto domes & river lookfrom ...
Boswell by my bed, Tolstoy on my table; Thought the world has bled For four and a half years, And ...
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda in a land no crueller, and over the walls to domes & ...
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