Book Contents: Moods Of Ginger Mick (C J Dennis Poems)
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
C J Dennis Poems on Countries (38 Poems)
The Rhymes of Sym (C J Dennis Poems)
Nobody knew why it should be so;Nobody knew or wanted to know. It might have been checked had but someone ...
The Push (C J Dennis Poems)
Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor, An' struck a light that set the world aflame;Becos ...
The Battle Of The Wazzir (C J Dennis Poems)
If ole Pharaoh, King of Egyp', 'ad been gazin' on the scene 'E'd' ave give the A.I.F. a narsty nameWhen ...
The Stones of Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh, In the end of the year umteen;Of the Glugs of ...
Nocturne (C J Dennis Poems)
I'm standin' at the corner uv the Lane -- The Land called Spadgers -- waiting fer 'is jills.The night's come ...
A Holy War (C J Dennis Poems)
Young friend! . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus. 'E sees me first, an' 'as ...
Hymn of Futility (C J Dennis Poems)
Lord, Thou hast given unto us a land. In Thy beneficence Thou has ordainedThat we should hold a country ...
The Singing Soldiers (C J Dennis Poems)
When I'm sittin' in me dug-out wiv me rifle on me knees,An' a yowlin', 'owlin' chorus comes a-floatin' up the ...
The Woes of Bill (C J Dennis Poems)
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,Suddenly I ...
The Glug Quest (C J Dennis Poems)
Follow the river and cross the ford, Follow again to the wobbly bridge,Turn to the left at the notice board, ...
‘Got-a-Fag’ (C J Dennis Poems)
He was tall and tough and stringy, with the shoulders of an axeman,Broad and loose, with greenhide muscles, and a ...
The Leader That Was Pushed (C J Dennis Poems)
Once on a time a general whose name is handed downTo the present generation as a name of high renown ...
Ogs (C J Dennis Poems)
It chanced one day, in the middle of May, There came to the great King SploshA policeman, who said, while ...
The Wobble (C J Dennis Poems)
Now the Wobble went out on the roaring tide,With a dry dog trotting along by its side;Went over the sea ...
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 ...
Kids! (C J Dennis Poems)
Kids!Hundreds of 'em for the farmer! Kids of an imported brand;Thousands of 'em for the country! ...
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 ...
A Mixed Crew (C J Dennis Poems)
Tho' it sounds a trifle mystic, Somewhat vague and cabbalistic,When you come to analyse the ...
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 - ...
The Spoilers (C J Dennis Poems)
Ye are the Great White People, masters and lords of the earth,Spreading your stern dominion over the world's wide girth.Here, ...
Knights Of The Never Never (C J Dennis Poems)
When I rode with young Sid Kidman out across the Yarrowie Plain --In that year the Long Drought ended, and ...
Conducted Tour (C J Dennis Poems)
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
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 ...
Limitations (C J Dennis Poems)
Who are these blokes with bulging brows I see all o'er the shop?The layman asked. "Them's scientists," Replied the courteous ...
As Old George Said (C J Dennis Poems)
Said old George Jones: "All in a hundred years. 'Tis little time enough, and well may makeThis youthful country proud ...
The Swagman (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, he was old and he was spare;His bushy whiskers and his hairWere all fussed up and very greyHe said ...
An Appeal to End Appeals (C J Dennis Poems)
Sir, -- I try to do my duty as a patriotic man With sane views about the science of gastronomy;And ...
The Madman (C J Dennis Poems)
I should go mad, he said, "in such a place! The lack of company, the loneliness!Nothing but trees to ...
Dinner and Dinty (C J Dennis Poems)
He dreaded not dark, nor the lonely road, For the world, as he knew it, was kind.Nor threat of the ...