The Defence (C J Dennis Poems)
Not guilty, yer Honers! I talks to yer straight! An' I calls it a pretty crook game -An' an 'og ...
Not guilty, yer Honers! I talks to yer straight! An' I calls it a pretty crook game -An' an 'og ...
Luke Gale, the larrikin lad, dwelt in Larrikin Lane, A low street, a by-street, right at the edge of the ...
i went to a movie showthe other evening in the cuffof a friends turned up trousersand saw the three little ...
Ben Bowyang spluttered with rage suppressed, "Hi, there!" And his brow was black,As two by two and three by three ...
I'm home plenty early, I reckon—It's too soon to start cookin' grub,So before I begin with my bakin'I'll take me ...
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit and sew and talk and smoke,And ...
One-and-two-and-three-and-four --You're playing it by ear, boy! Eyes upon the score! Miss Trapp, the music teacher, very prim and staid, ...
Come Jack, our place is with the ruckOn the open road today,Not with the tepid "footpath sneak"Or with the wise ...
In the great green park with the wooden palings -The wooden palings so hard to climb,There are fern and foxglove, ...
Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd, Less prone to value things of little worthIn failing to wax wrath about ...
Drunk, Lene Levi walkedIn the neighboring streets nightlyBack and forth, screaming, "auto."Her blouse was opened,So that one saw her fine, ...
The poor omnibus driver under the tin canopy, warming a huge chilblain inside his glove, follows his heavy omnibus along ...
I He would drink by himself And raise a weathered thumb Towards the high shelf, Calling another rum And blackcurrant, ...
'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ...
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I WAITED today for a freight train to pass. Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the bars, went ...
There was a rich old gentleman Lived on a lonely moor in Switzerland, And he was very hard to the ...
If you live along with all the other people and are just like them, and conform, and are nice you're ...
"Yes," said the sister with the little pinched face, The busy little sister with the funny little tract: - "This ...
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