Captain Dobbin (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
CAPTAIN Dobbin, having retired from the South SeasIn the dumb tides of , with a handful of shells,A few poisoned ...
CAPTAIN Dobbin, having retired from the South SeasIn the dumb tides of , with a handful of shells,A few poisoned ...
Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell.Be careful; can't shake hands now; never shall.Both arms have mutinied ...
(Written in her sixteenth year.)I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers,And as fast as I dreamed it, ...
Walk past those houses on a Sunday morningwhere pianos stumble in front rooms,mechanics freed from tools take shearsto clip their ...
Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noisedelight fuller than he can ready singor studiously say,on hearing that the year ...
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse: Plagues worse than fill'd ...
In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young damesKate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;These maids of the ...
The high, sweet winds of Aprilare pipin' up the glen,and all the birds who went awayare comin' home again,back to ...
Whoa! or so she said in that perfect five-year old way, "that's a lot of peanuts!" she marveled, in her ...
28 July Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise delight fuller than he can ready sing or studiously say, ...
I used to think a pot of ink Held magic in its fluid, And I would ply a pen when ...
Up in my garret bleak and bare I tilted back on my broken chair, And my three old pals were ...
"Carry your suitcase, Sir?" he said. I turned away to hide a grin, For he was shorter by a head ...
Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep; It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, When peaceful folk ...
'The effect of our bombardment was terrific. One man told me he had never seen so many dead before.' -War ...
But yesterday I banked on fistic fame, Figgerin' I'd be a champion of the Ring. Today I've half a mind ...
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
MANY things I might have said today. And I kept my mouth shut. So many times I was asked To ...
(Another version of "A Terre".) To Siegfried Sassoon My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes! My fingers fidget like ...
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
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