The City Bushman (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
Two good friends had Hiawatha, Singled out from all the others, Bound to him in closest union, And to whom ...
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their colour; and behold my head. -- George Herbert Long ...
As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells- That bird ...
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, ...
Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little ...
No news of navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd tittyries; No closet plot or open vent, That ...
i have lost touch over the years with the hot africa inside me illness and all - i spread to ...
When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks, At this first sight here let him lay them by And seek ...
Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be. Bait it with the ...
A single Clover Plank Was all that saved a Bee A Bee I personally knew From sinking in the sky ...
A Mine there is no Man would own But must it be conferred, Demeaning by exclusive wealth A Universe beside ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
WILT thou be my Dearie? When Sorrow wring thy gentle heart, O wilt thou let me cheer thee! By the ...
O THOU pale orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines. And wanders ...
O THOU Great Being! what Thou art, Surpasses me to know; Yet sure I am, that known to Thee Are ...
OF all the numerous ills that hurt our peace, That press the soul, or wring the mind with anguish Beyond ...
I LEFT thee last, a child at heart, A woman scarce in years: I come to thee, a solemn corpse ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
Which is the weakest thing of all Mine heart can ponder? The sun, a little cloud can pall With darkness ...
IF I should learn, in some quite casual way, That you were gone, not to return again- Read from the ...
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