The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
I'll tell you what you wanderers, who drift from town to town; Don't look into a good girl's eyes, until ...
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on ...
A fool there was and he mad his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Boanerges Blitzen, servant of the Queen, Is a dismal failure -- is a Might-have-been. In a luckless moment he discovered ...
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot ...
"Tout aux tavernes et aux filles." Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a nag? ...
To wed, or not to wed; that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The bills ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag, ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
I put two yellow peepers in an owl. Wow. I fix the grin of Crocodile. Spiv. I sew the slither ...
"Gimme 'n F" the spruiker cried, "gimme a U" and crowd near died, they knew before he came to, Whatzat ...
He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen. But there was probably another ...
THE GOSSOON It's bleedin'! It's bleedin'! THE OULD WOMAN An' shure, me lad, 't is bleedin'; But come, ...
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had ...
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped ...
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
For years we've had a little dog, Last year we acquired a big dog; He wasn't big when we got ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
'Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of June, Lord Roberts entered Pretoria in the afternoon; His ...
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. Ha! Ha! Ha! What children ...
Monday, March 13, 1826 The Budget - quite charming and witty - no hearing, For plaudits and laughs, the good ...
"Son," said my mother, When I was knee-high, "you've need of clothes to cover you, and not a rag have ...
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