The Old Bush School (John O Brien Poems)
'Tis a queer, old battered landmark that belongs to other years;With the dog-leg fence around it, and its hat about ...
'Tis a queer, old battered landmark that belongs to other years;With the dog-leg fence around it, and its hat about ...
You wonder why so many would be buried in the sea,In this world of froth and bubble,But I don't wonder, ...
YES, back at home I used to drive a tram; And Sammy, there, he was a driver, tooHe used to ride ...
When the housebreaking business is slackAnd cracksmen are finding it slowFor all the sea-siders are backAnd a great many more ...
My son! . . . Them words, jist like a blessed song,Is singin' in me 'eart the 'ole day long; ...
He was a Glug of simple charm;He wished no living creature harm. His kindly smile like sunlight fell On all ...
Peter the 'Ermit was a 'oly bloke, The parson sez, "wot chivvied coves to war." "Too right," I ...
Ar, wimmin! Wot a blinded fool I've been! I arsts meself, wot else could I ixpeck?I done me block complete ...
An'—wilt—yeh—take—this—woman—fer—to—be Yer—wedded—wife?— . . . O, strike me! Will I wot?Take 'er? Doreen? 'E stan's there arstin' me! As if ...
See, I'm writin' to Mick as a bloke to a bloke - To a cobber o' mine at the front ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea;They clambered and rollicked in ...
I slung me khaki suit to-day. Civilian now front heel to chin I 'op round on a single ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
Across the millstream below the bridge Seven blue swallows divide the air In shapes invisible and evanescent, Kaleidoscopic beyond the ...
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