The Faltering Knight (C J Dennis Poems)
It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life, A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer ...
C J Dennis Poems on Cities (41 Poems)
The Seer (C J Dennis Poems)
Somewhere or other, 'tis doubtful where,In the archives of Gosh is a volume rare, A precious old classic that nobody ...
Emily Ann (C J Dennis Poems)
Government muddles, departments dazed,Fear and confusion wherever he gazed; Order insulted, authority spurned, Dread and distraction wherever he turned -Oh, ...
Wheat (C J Dennis Poems)
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
Sym, Son of Joy (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Joi, the rebel, he had a son In far, far Gosh where the tall trees wave.Said Joi: "In Gosh ...
The Little Red Dog (C J Dennis Poems)
The Glugs still live in the land of Gosh,Under the rule of the great King Splosh. And they climb the ...
The End of Joi (C J Dennis Poems)
They climbed the trees . . . As was told before,The Glugs climbed trees in the days of yore, When ...
Washing Day (C J Dennis Poems)
The little gipsy vi'lits, they wus peepin' thro' the greenAs she come walkin' in the grass, me little wife, Doreen. ...
‘I Dips me Lid’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Young sir, 'E sez . . . Like that . . . It made me feelRomantic like, as if me ...
The Little Homes (C J Dennis Poems)
We have heard the cheering, brothers, We have heard the martial peal;We have seen the soldiers marching And the glint ...
Toolangi (C J Dennis Poems)
He was obviously English, in his Harris tweeds and stockings.And his accent was of Oxford, and his swagger and his ...
Armistice: To His Dead Cobber From The Sentimental Bloke (C J Dennis Poems)
I'm sittin' 'ere, Mick - sittin' 'ere today, Feelin' 'arf glum, 'arf sorter - reverent, Thinkin' strange, crooked thorts of ...
The Candid Candidate (C J Dennis Poems)
Alfred Ebenezer Jackson was a very earnest man,Who aspired to be a statesman, and he consequently ranAt a general election ...
The Cab Horses’ Story (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, you wouldn't imagine, to look at me, That I was a racehorse once.I have done my mile in - ...
Suburbia – A Yearn (C J Dennis Poems)
O man with a Position, prithee tell,How is't you mould your sal'ried life so well;Holding in lofty scorn that lowly ...
Mugga Mugga (C J Dennis Poems)
Candidly, I do not hug a Wish to go ...
The Capital Site (C J Dennis Poems)
I hear them speak of a Fed'ral siteWhere shall arise a city bright -Mother, where is this bonzer spot?Shall we ...
Anzac Square: What The Digger Said (C J Dennis Poems)
Said the Digger: "Soon forgot! Soon forgot, the deeds of war. Better so, may be. . . Why not? Beauty ...
City of Dreams (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, we might have a marvellous city Were we only less keen on cashLess avid for things -- more's the ...
Christmas Scene (C J Dennis Poems)
To this green place the tourists troop,By twos, by threes, and group by group, Lads in bright blazers, girls in ...
Old Town Types No27 – Sergeant Mat McGillicuddy (C J Dennis Poems)
King of all the old town, gaoler, censor, too,Bane of heavy sinners doing things they shouldn't do, Terror of ...
Old Town Types No. 6 – Flash Phil (C J Dennis Poems)
Still I've the picture of him -- Flash Phil Galloway; In a shining dog-cart driving down the road;Spanking ponies dashing ...
‘Mac’ (C J Dennis Poems)
In every little country place, all up and down the land,From ageing cradles of the race to Never-Never Land --From ...
Mallee Wife (C J Dennis Poems)
Home's best (she said), and the taleOf the hungering soil and the flail Of the sun and the shuddering threat ...
Wangled by the Wayside (C J Dennis Poems)
Country blokes is kind, he said, And sat upon his swag(I had no pipe tobacco, So he said he'd "risk ...
Introducing the Day Family (C J Dennis Poems)
Sun Day is a simple child, Face new washed and shining;In the morning prim and mild - Church and ...
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 ...
Our Town Awakes (C J Dennis Poems)
Six o'clock. From the railway yard The engine toots; careering hard, A milk-cart rattles by and stops; ...
Coquette (C J Dennis Poems)
Spring is a flirt. Unexpectedly gleaming Over the shoulder of some far blue hill.We glimpse the blue eyes of her, ...
The Broken Sanctuary (C J Dennis Poems)
I 'ad been bushed in city streets, Where the bricks and mortar grow.I 'ad worked me way through the northern ...