The Woes of Bill (C J Dennis Poems)
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,Suddenly I ...
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,Suddenly I ...
I stood in the street in the noontide, precisely at midday time,For the loud-mouthed bells of the G.P.O. had that ...
POWER o' ploughs and clothes-pegs in her, pork and beans for ev'ry sinner, Pork and beans for captain's dinner --Pass ...
On one fine but fatal morning in the early Eocene, Lo, a brawny Bloke set out to dig a hole:First ...
In Salthouse Dock as I did pass one day not long ago,I chanced to meet a sailorman that once I ...
GAMBRINUS. In a field of goldnen parley Goot King Gambrinus shlept, Und treamin' pout de dursty volk, Dey say he ...
By Chinese Charley's junk-store, by the Panama Saloon,Where 'longshore loafers lean and spit, at morning, night, and noon, —All among ...
OH, we all was tired o' waiting in the spring of eighty-three, When The Duke came up the 'arbour an' ...
'TIS friendship's test to guard the name Of him you love from all attack, As you are to his face, ...
Now, shut your mouths, you loafers all, You vex me with your twaddle,You own a nag or big ...
'Tis better far to wear awayIn honest strong endeavor,Than idly rust in slow decayAnd work and labor never;By honest toil ...
Don't drink, boys, don't!There is nothing of happiness, pleasure, or cheer,In brandy, in whiskey, in rum, ale, or beer.If they ...
By thronging mart and lonely hill, By bridle-path and broad highway,I, follower of the shadow, still Follow a ...
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy ...
When the kindly hours of darkness, save for light of moon and star, Hide the picture on the signboard over ...
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
Australia's a big country An' Freedom's humping bluey, An' Freedom's on the wallaby Oh! don't you hear 'er cooey? She's ...
There's a brook on the side of Greylock that used to be full of trout, But there's nothing there now ...
"Dad, it's a good day for a jog" or so I think she said, laughing over her shoulder, heading down ...
Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water, wholly in dark, time limited, different from initiations now: the class ...
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall With seven-and-twenty hands in all. Twenty to hand and reef and haul, A ...
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