Dan, The Wreck (Henry Lawson Poem)
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, Yet a wreck; None would think Death's finger's hooking Him from deck. Cause of half ...
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, Yet a wreck; None would think Death's finger's hooking Him from deck. Cause of half ...
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! Watch for a smooth! Give way! If she feels the lop already She'll stand ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
(a) radical ban all fires and places where people congregate to create comfort put an end to sleep good cooking ...
Please master can I touch your cheeck please master can I kneel at your feet please master can I loosen ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money ...
Now as the train bears west, Its rhythm rocks the earth, And from my Pullman berth I stare into the ...
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So ...
When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound, Without a care or trouble on your mind, And ...
So, the bank has bust it's boiler! And in six or seven year It will pay me all my money ...
The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state that the dog is full of love. I've also ...
More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, ...
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Night is my sister, and how deep in love, How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore, There to be ...
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
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