`For’ard’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like ...
I guess you think you know this story.You don't. The real one's much more gory.The phoney one, the one you ...
'E calls me Digger; that's 'ow 'e begins.'E sez 'e's only 'arf a man; an' grins.Judged be 'is nerve, I'd ...
'I wash me 'ands uv 'im,' I tells 'em straight.'You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave this ...
The Devil take the cook, that old grey-bearded fellow,Yo ho, haul away!Who feeds us odds and ends and biscuits whiskered ...
He has notions of Australia from the tales that he's been told-Land of leggings and revolvers, land of savages and ...
Are you, like me, a peevish brat,With feelings extra-fine?Are you disposed to whip the catWhen misadventure lays your flat?Then paste ...
A box with paints from childhood's time:The colors of town are earth and grime.An old worker at a dark doorway ...
Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise. I know enough to know I'll never knowThe 'uman female ...
I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more;I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A ...
'E calls me Digger; that's 'ow 'e begins.'E sez 'e's only 'arf a man; an' grins. Judged be 'is nerve, ...
YOU can dunnage casks o' tallow; you can handle hides an' horn; You can carry frozen mutton; you can lumber ...
I wash me 'ands uv 'im, I tells 'em straight. "You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave ...
In Burke's Saloon, among the crowd,I heard Bill Brewster boasting loud,Boasting loud and boasting longA lot of longshore stiffs among.And ...
By the Mediterranean shore, In the days of the cohorts and legions,When oodles of rain used to pour O'er the ...
He gleaned all the gossip and he gathered all the news, Mad Matt, the carrier, delivering the grub;He knew ...
We know those little country pubs, By cross-road and by creek,Where faithfully the landlord scrubs His counter once a week,And ...
The Passionate Householder to his LoveCome, live with us and be our cook,And we will all the whimsies brookThat German, ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
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