The City Bushman (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began, And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a ...
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
All day the blanket snapped and swelled on the line, roused by a hot spring wind.... From there it witnessed ...
Young Ben he was a nice young man, A carpenter by trade; And he fell in love with Sally Brown, ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. THOU wert forcibly seized ...
A CHILD refused to go betimes To church like other people; He roam'd abroad, when rang the chimes On Sundays ...
Roused from his peace, his slumber the panicked disciples failing to trust Taming the winds calming the waters Christ alone ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
He gave the solid rail a hateful kick. From far away there came an answering tick And then another tick. ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught A feeling strange or new; Thou hast but roused a latent thought, ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Patience, little Heart. One day a heavy, June-hot woman Will enter and shut the door to stay. And when your ...
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...
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