You A Wantin’ Me (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
You a-wantin' me,Me a-wantin' you!What's we waitin' for?Life is wearin' through.What's we waitin' for,Lookin' still and sad?Life ain't watchin' round,Hopin' ...
You a-wantin' me,Me a-wantin' you!What's we waitin' for?Life is wearin' through.What's we waitin' for,Lookin' still and sad?Life ain't watchin' round,Hopin' ...
UP on Yorla intake,Lookin' doon thoo seesLang blue back of Hamble HillAboon wind-crooked trees;Round thee lapwings call;Black-faced moorland flocksShelter nigh ...
Now up and down the siding brown The great black crows are flyin', And down below the spur, I know, ...
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
Chorus.-O WHISTLE, an' I'll come to ye, my lad, O whistle, an' I'll come to ye, my lad, Tho' father ...
OH! the old swimmin'-hole! whare the crick so still and deep Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep, ...
It hain't no use to grumble and complane; It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice. -- When God sorts ...
Missis Moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she: "Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now ...
In Pat Mahoney's booze bazaar the fun was fast and free, And Ragtime Billy spanked the baby grand; While caroling ...
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...
A-sitttin' on a cracker box an' spittin' in the stove, I took a sudden notion that I'd kindo' like to ...
. . . So I walked among the willows very quietly all night; There was no moon at all, at ...
"There's something in your face, Michael, I've seen it all the day; There's something quare that wasn't there when first ...
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
The stranger came from Narromine and made his little joke-- "They say we folks in Narromine are narrow-minded folk. But ...
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And ...
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