Introduction: Rose of Spadgers (C J Dennis Poems)
I've crawled; I've eaten dirt; I've lied a treat;I've dodged the cops an' led a double life;I've readied up wild ...
I've crawled; I've eaten dirt; I've lied a treat;I've dodged the cops an' led a double life;I've readied up wild ...
On the hill they are crowding together, In the stand they are crushing for room, Like midge-flies they swarm on ...
Babs Malone Now the squatters and the cockies, Shearers, trainers, and their jockeys Had gathered them together for a meeting ...
YANKEE packet's down the water --Blow, my bully boys, blow;Third mate loved the skipper's daughter -- Blow, my bully boys, ...
Beneath my window in a city street A monster lairs, a creature huge and grim And only half believed: the ...
There cam a man to oor toon-en',And a waesome carl was he,Snipie-nebbit, and crookit-mou'd,And gleyt o' a blinterin ee.Muckle he ...
WE shipped him at the Sandwich Isles --'Fore God, he's mostly nose! We've fetched him full eight thousand miles To ...
HE had said, "Thank God for my body obscene,For the lust that oppresses life, choking me;Hereby shall I prove my ...
Come Jack, our place is with the ruckOn the open road today,Not with the tepid "footpath sneak"Or with the wise ...
HERE is my hand to you, brother,You of the ruck who have failedI, too, am only anotherFighter who faltered and ...
I SAW him where the doomed, a thickening flood,Jostled the brazen Gates of Heaven. HecriedWith dry-parched throat and lips beslimed ...
O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,A lot of asses praise you because you are 'virile',We, you, I! We ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
(Maidens' song from St. Winefred's Well) THE LEADEN ECHO How to kéep-is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere ...
Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
In ruck and quibble of courtfolk This giant hulked, I tell you, on her scene With hands like derricks, Looks ...
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
Bring me a quart of colonial beer And some doughy damper to make good cheer, I must make a heavy ...
We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on ...
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