The Debate (C J Dennis Poems)
He was a Glug of simple charm;He wished no living creature harm. His kindly smile like sunlight fell On all ...
He was a Glug of simple charm;He wished no living creature harm. His kindly smile like sunlight fell On all ...
'Ere! 'Ave a 'eart! 'e sez. "Why, love a duck! A 'uman bein' ain't a choppin' block!There ain't no ...
Ar, wimmin! Wot a blinded fool I've been! I arsts meself, wot else could I ixpeck?I done me block complete ...
Now Sym was a Glug; and 'tis mentioned soThat the tale reads perfectly plain as we go. In his veins ...
I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.I don't arst for bokays: ...
Five nights agone I lay at rest On my suburban couch.My trousers on the bedpost hung, Red gold within their ...
The Glugs abide in a far, far landThat is partly pebbles and stones and sand, But mainly earth of a ...
Follow the river and cross the ford, Follow again to the wobbly bridge,Turn to the left at the notice board, ...
They climbed the trees . . . As was told before,The Glugs climbed trees in the days of yore, When ...
Smith is a very stupid man; He lives next door to me;He has no settled scheme or plan ...
I wus pickin' gipsy vi'lits fer to try an' square Doreen.We 'ad words . . . about pianners - fer ...
'E's a tough ole salt, With a 'ide well tanned, ...
(Compiled by the Sentimental Bloke)I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in song An' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,I ...
Aye, call it murder is ye will! 'Tis not the crime I fear.If his cold curse would but lie still ...
In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a planThat was large as it ...
Ladies and gentlemen: I take this opportunityTo introduce myself and mention that, much as we may deplore the fact, we ...
He lived in Mundaloo, and Bill McClosky was his name,But folks that knew him well had little knowledge of that ...
Nay, why do foolish politicians strive To win a fleeting popularity?In vain, in vain, they jealously contrive To turn the ...
Fellers of Australier, Blokes an' coves an' coots,Shift yer —- carcases, Move yer —- boots.Gird yer —- loins up, Get ...
Gentlemen! a politician,One who values his position,Stands, with easy confidence,Here before you on the fence.For he knows full well, good ...
A man was Peter Myloh, strong-browed and black of face,Australian Aboriginal, son of a dark doomed race. And even I, ...
King of all the old town, gaoler, censor, too,Bane of heavy sinners doing things they shouldn't do, Terror of ...
In every little country place, all up and down the land,From ageing cradles of the race to Never-Never Land --From ...
We have heard it. Oft we heard it long before we came of age.In whatever fields we practise, art whatever ...
Can it be I -- this Hindenburg, deferring To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charmsAnd all this mummery about me stirring? ...
When Leonardo was a lad there was a certain setWho snubbed him most outrageously - in fact, they snub him ...
Far in the forest depths I dwell, The master mimic of them all,To pour from out my secret dell Echo ...
Kilmore cares not who comes nigh.But, with a calm, incurious eye,She sees the swift cars speeding by, Then turns again ...
Sadly sobbing, sadly sobbing, Rolls the restless wireless sea,Where the wireless waves go bobbing Up and down so dolefully.And nothing ...
Oh, I've got a lovely story that I've thought out all myself. It will make a gorgeous picture, I am ...
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