The Ports of the Open Sea (Henry Lawson Poems)
Down here where the ships loom large in The gloom when the sea-storms veer,Down here on the south-west margin Of the western ...
Poems about kerb (16 Poems)
The Cab Lamps (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE CRESCENT MOON and clock tower are fair above the wallAcross the smothered lanes of 'Loo, the stifled vice and ...
Divorced (Henry Lawson Poems)
TWO COUPLES are drifting the self-same way (Men of the world know well)From the ballroom glare as the night grows grey (Men ...
The Idiot (John Freeman Poems)
He stands on the kerbWatching the street.He's always watching there,Listening to the beatOf time in the street,Listening to the thronging ...
The Watch on the Kerb (Henry Lawson Poems)
Night-Lights are falling; Girl of the street,Go to your calling If you would eat.Lamplight and starlight And moonlight superb,Bright hope is a farlight, So ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
The Burden of Nineveh (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
In our Museum galleriesTo-day I lingered o'er the prizeDead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,-Her Art for ever in fresh wiseFrom ...
A Ballad Of Desire (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
BEHOLD it was this very night:Outwearied with the plaintive rain.I rose, 1 cast her from my sight -Who loves, must ...
Melbourne Sonnets: VI. Incidental (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
WITH bleared eyes blinking, dazed, the cripplestrayedAmong the plunging traffic; peeringroundUncertain, moved and fell. One fearful soundCaught his life bubble-like; ...
Ambulances (Philip Larkin Poem)
Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, ...
The Captain of the Push (Henry Lawson Poem)
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
In the Storm that is to come (Henry Lawson Poem)
By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone - When the nations ...
Memory Of My Father (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
Every old man I see Reminds me of my father When he had fallen in love with death One time ...
new age (Rg Gregory Poem)
(i) how new the world is trying to find nerve in an old rind (ii) the bread is crumbled for ...
Old Deuteronomy (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...