In Spadger’s Lane (C J Dennis Poems)
Ole Mother Moon 'oo yanks 'er beamin' dile Acrost the sky when we've grown sick o' day,She's like some fat ...
C J Dennis Poems on Age (30 Poems)
Jim (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, be the Hokey Fly! sez Peter Begg."Suppose 'e comes 'ome with a wooden leg. Suppose 'e isn't fit to ...
The Age of Reason (C J Dennis Poems)
Whene'er I read some savage tale Of punishment devisedBy tyrants in an olden day, When serfs were victimised,I reverently tell ...
An Old Master (C J Dennis Poems)
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
The Boon of Discontent (C J Dennis Poems)
Once an anthropoidal ape, Hairy, savage, strange of shape,On a day that was excessively B.C., In a forest damp ...
The Chase of Ages (C J Dennis Poems)
Light of my lives! Is the time not yet? Lo, I've brooded on a starThrough many a year, with the ...
Work or Reflection (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, I always have preserved a certain attitude Quite definite in reference to Work --('Tis futility concealingThat I have the ...
Old Town Types No. 15 – Mrs Felix Donnett (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Felix Donnett was a lady of renown,For ten years her husband was mayor of the town; For ten years ...
Old Town Types No.15 – Mrs Felix Donnett (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Felix Donnett was a lady of renown,For ten years her husband was mayor of the town; For ten ...
The Roads’ End (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Ben, the pensioner, is going down to die.Huddled in the mail-car, he turns a wistful eyeOn this familiar forest ...
Farewell Cable Tram (C J Dennis Poems)
Now a sad farewell to the cable-tram, Staunch friend of the quieter days,That glided down thro' a leisured town Ere ...
Definitions (C J Dennis Poems)
We have heard it. Oft we heard it long before we came of age.In whatever fields we practise, art whatever ...
Armistice Day 1933 (C J Dennis Poems)
This we have said: "We shall remember them." And deep our sorrow while the deed was young.Even as David mourned ...
Song of Snobs (C J Dennis Poems)
When Leonardo was a lad there was a certain setWho snubbed him most outrageously - in fact, they snub him ...
A Likely Lad (C J Dennis Poems)
Child of a myriad varied voices calling O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues,Tho' captious critics view your ways ...
Mid-Winter Monody (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a bleak, black world without, And the rain falls fast;And the wind, with a whine and a shout, Blows ...
Spring Delirium (C J Dennis Poems)
Gold days give way to sudden rain, But what, I ask, of that?For I am my own man again, And ...
Important People (C J Dennis Poems)
The success of the Scout movement throughout the whole world has been amply proven by the present triumphant gathering in ...
Sanctuary Scorned [1936] (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, is there not one place on earthWhere man's goodwill has gone from birthThro' adolescence, with its rage,Into a kindly, ...
Colac (C J Dennis Poems)
A lady plump and pleasing And generous and free,Her life is spent in sleek content Beside her inland sea;And, round ...
When So Dispoged (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, foolish flapper, keen to be Considered cute and up-to-date,Sit down a while and hark to me, And I shall ...
The Weary Philosopher (C J Dennis Poems)
I can conceive no heav'nly blissMore perfectly complete than this: To sit and smoke and idly chew Reflection's cud, with ...
The Golden Age (C J Dennis Poems)
Is it the dawn of a Golden Age And a swift release from pain?The politicians fight and rage Where doubt ...
The Idle Son (C J Dennis Poems)
Young Benjamin left school this year And stepped right in a job;And he starts in hope of a ...
Bacchus Marsh (C J Dennis Poems)
Here she bides, a buxom lady, Blest by peace and great content;Dwelling by her byways shady, Where the elm trees ...
The Faith of Old George Jones (C J Dennis Poems)
War raged around this troubled world, When I was but a lad,And into battle men were hurled, As some ambition ...
Country Doctors (C J Dennis Poems)
The quiet country doctors Of many a country town,Whose lives are spent to service bent, With scant hope of renown ...
Cobbers and Quids (C J Dennis Poems)
Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd, Less prone to value things of little worthIn failing to wax wrath about ...
Ballarat (C J Dennis Poems)
The digger's cultured daughter: Her youth was wildly free.Now by the placid water Of tree-girt WendoureeShe walks, a gracious lady, ...
Beauty’s Blemish (C J Dennis Poems)
You are as young, O lady mine, As ere you were in olden days,Your lips are red, your blue eyes ...