The Free-Selector’s Daughter (Henry Lawson Poems)
I met her on the Lachlan Side -- A darling girl I thought her, And ere I left I swore ...
I met her on the Lachlan Side -- A darling girl I thought her, And ere I left I swore ...
In those days the Evil Spirits, All the Manitos of mischief, Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom, And his love for Chibiabos, Jealous ...
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er ...
Cold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" ...
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter ...
As I perceive I am dying now and know I will not speak again, will not survive the earth, be ...
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
Oh my black soul! now art thou summoned By sickness, death's herald, and champion; Thou art like a pilgrim, which ...
They put Us far apart -- As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula -- We signified "These see" -- ...
I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" -- I'd do this way -- And so I ...
Facts by our side are never sudden Until they look around And then they scare us like a spectre Protruding ...
Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is ...
The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout Fishing ...
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
They are assembled, astonished and disturbed round him, who like a sage resolved his fate, and now leaves those to ...
To the voters of Glen Innes 'twas O'Sullivan that went, To secure the country vote for Mister Hay. So he ...
A jade cup was broken because old age came too soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinking three cups ...
LORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command ...
It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
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