‘Possum’ A Lay of New Chumland (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
WELL, Maussa! if you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true.Doh de berry taut ob dat bad time ...
We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs, In dis howlin' wildaness,Fu' to speak some words of comfo't To each othah in distress.An' we ...
BOB POLTER was a navvy, andHis hands were coarse, and dirty too,His homely face was rough and tanned,His time of ...
Las' July--an', I persume 'Bout as hot As the ole Gran'-Jury room Where they sot!-- Fight 'twixt Mike an' Dock McGriff-- 'Pears to me jes' ...
This man Jones was what you'd call A feller 'at had no sand at all; Kind o' consumpted, and undersize, And sailor-complected, with ...
When Ezry, that's my sister's son, come home from furrin parts,He fetched the folks a lot of things ter brighten ...
I've got a little yaller dog, a wuthless kind of chap,Who jest ain't good fer nothin' but ter eat and ...
Why, yes, sir, she is like a big fiddle-case,An' her funnel's ridickelous tall,An' the state o' her riggin's a blushin' ...
Hyeah come Caesar Higgins, Don't he think he 's fine? Look at dem new riggin's Ain't he tryin' to shine? Got a standin' collar An' ...
EF you's only got de powah fe' to blow a little whistle,Keep ermong de people wid de whistles.Ef you don't, ...
Unc' si, de Holy Bible sayIn speakin' of de jus',Dat he do fall seben times a day;Now how's de sinner ...
A Humorous Reading A strappin', sonsie, weel-matched pairWere Jock Macree an' Maggie Blair,An' mony wusses, said an' thinkit,They had that ...
Come in, gudeman, to your ain fireside, There's a cauld, cauld grup in the air,An' the win' blaws snell frae ...
Ten mile in twenty minutes! 'E done it, sir. That's true.The big bay 'orse in the further stall--the one wot's ...
Has eawr Jammy bin here to-neet?Oh! theaw'rt theer, theau great drunken slotchIt's strange if au nowt elze to doBo' ha' ...
Bauld Robin Ford, frae Glasgow toon, Cam' here an' spent a nicht wi' me;An' wow, he is an unco chield, ...
The deil's in that bit bairn o' mine, for every noo and thanHe gies me siccan frichts, that whiles for ...
I sit afore a half-oot fire, An' I am a' my lane,Nae frien' or fremit daun'ers in, For a' my ...
There were Two Little Bears who lived in a Wood,And one of them was Bad and the other was Good.Good ...
Just as the sun was setting Back of the Western hills Grandfather stood by the window Eating the last of ...
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