Uncle Harry (Henry Lawson Poem)
Oh, never let on to your own true love That ever you drank a drop; That ever you played in ...
Oh, never let on to your own true love That ever you drank a drop; That ever you played in ...
1FROM THE NURSERY When I was born, you waited behind a pile of linen in the nursery, and when we ...
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown ...
to the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison IT is not ...
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
you may get fed up with me she says (seing herself slightly) fearing old age in a woman must render ...
Good people all, with one accord Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word,- From those who spoke ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger ...
The Tint I cannot take -- is best -- The Color too remote That I could show it in Bazaar ...
With words, with countenance, and with manners I shall build an excellent panoply; and in this way I shall face ...
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...
My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me, as mine by her I would not credit ...
Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
WITH secret throes I marked that earth, That cottage, witness of my birth; And near I saw, bold issuing forth ...
In ruck and quibble of courtfolk This giant hulked, I tell you, on her scene With hands like derricks, Looks ...
I was seventy-seven, come August, I shall shortly be losing my bloom; I've experienced zephyr and raw gust And (symbolical) ...
Now ye gallant Sydney boys, who have left your household joys To march across the sea in search of glory, ...
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join ...
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