Said Grenfell to my Spirit (Henry Lawson Poem)
Said Grenfell to my spirit, "You've been writing very free Of the charms of other places, and you don't remember ...
Said Grenfell to my spirit, "You've been writing very free Of the charms of other places, and you don't remember ...
I saw it in the days gone by, When the dead girl lay at rest, And the wattle and the ...
Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the ...
Though poor and in trouble I wander alone, With rebel cockade in my hat, Though friends may desert me, and ...
Australia's a big country An' Freedom's humping bluey, An' Freedom's on the wallaby Oh! don't you hear 'er cooey? She's ...
Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack-- They start those awful voices o' nights That ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
A GUID New-year I wish thee, Maggie! Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie: Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Poets may praise a wattle thatch Doubtfully waterproof; Let me uplift my lowly latch Beneath a rose-tiled roof. Let it ...
Up from the evil day Of wattle and of woad, Along man's weary way Dark Pain has been the goad. ...
It was while we held our races -- Hurdles, sprints and steplechases -- Up in Dandaloo, That a crowd of ...
Let us cease our idle chatter, Let the tears bedew our cheek, For a man from Tallangatta Has been missing ...
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
There's nothing here sublime, But just a roving rhyme, Run off to pass the time, With nought titanic in. The ...
for Susan O'Neill Roe What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for ...
"He ought to be home," said the old man, "without there's something amiss. He only went to the Two-mile -- ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
I Blow across the stagnant world, I blow across the sea, For me, the sailor's flag unfurled, For me, the ...
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