Blokes (C J Dennis Poems)
Blokes ~ 'ErbDo you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort ...
C J Dennis Poems on Curiosity (30 Poems)
A Lonely Man (C J Dennis Poems)
When I'm out among the fellows, with the work to hold my mind,Then there's heaps of joy in livin' an' ...
The Idolators (C J Dennis Poems)
The veil was rent, and mundane Time merged in Eternity;And I beheld the End of Things. I heard the Last ...
The Wooer (C J Dennis Poems)
I nearly fell fair in my tracks.I'm trudgin' homeward with my axe When I come on her suddenly. "I wonder ...
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 ...
Get Work (C J Dennis Poems)
On one fine but fatal morning in the early Eocene, Lo, a brawny Bloke set out to dig a hole:First ...
‘I Dips me Lid’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Young sir, 'E sez . . . Like that . . . It made me feelRomantic like, as if me ...
The March (C J Dennis Poems)
In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a planThat was large as it ...
‘Stone the Crows’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Why stone the crows! 'e sez. "I like 'er style, But alwiz, some'ow, women 'ave appearedSet fer to 'old me ...
West (C J Dennis Poems)
I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime I'm mad to 'ave things clean.I've seen so much uv death," 'e ...
Out West (C J Dennis Poems)
I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime I'm mad to 'ave things clean.I've seen so much uv death, ...
The Wonders of the One Pound Note (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers!You .... with but a sixpence in your pocket, and you with half a "quid," and you with a ...
The Hoary Precedent (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr. Pericles, M.P., In four-sixty-nine B.C.,Outed Cimon at a general election; Premier Cimon, thuswise ex-ed, Was quite naturally vexed,And ...
The White Foxglove (C J Dennis Poems)
Reynard, the Fox, was asked to a party."Come", they said, in your Sunday best,For we like good form, tho' the ...
Bert (C J Dennis Poems)
Did you ever meet Bert? 'E's all over the town, In offices, shops an' in various places, Cocky an' ...
Bottle-O Benny (C J Dennis Poems)
Chuff! Chuff! Chuff! With a rumble and a rattle, Waking every echo on the old bush road;Waking, too, the wonder ...
The Automatic Umpire (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, Plugger Palook was a man in a thousand -- (Said Horace the Howler) not one of yer fools.But his ...
Wisdom after Victory (C J Dennis Poems)
Now comes to an end all our dolorous drifting;Clouds pass away and depression is lifting. Because we were wise in ...
‘Accorjins’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Where have the old accorjins gone? I was askin' the coves at the Show;Matt from the Mallee an' Dandenong Don, ...
An Old Man Muses (C J Dennis Poems)
Can it be I -- this Hindenburg, deferring To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charmsAnd all this mummery about me stirring? ...
One Dull Man (C J Dennis Poems)
Why did you play your spade in there? (said she).I can't think why you don't take care (said she).You fuss ...
The Elusive New Zoo Gnu (C J Dennis Poems)
They had a new gnu at the ZooAnd nobody knew.Tho' the keeper, they say, had a clue;And that's probably true,Since ...
The Barber’s Story (C J Dennis Poems)
Mornin', I sez to 'im, Gloomy, 'e seemed to be.Glum an' unsociable. Comes in the shop "Mornin'," I ...
Old Town Types No. 7 – Big Jack (C J Dennis Poems)
Well I remember him -- Big Jack Herrington; Big Jack, the lumper, tanned and honest-eyed,The clean, straight limbs of him,The ...
There’s a Good Time Coming (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a good time coming in the golden by-and-by: And I wish, oh, how I wish that it would come!There's ...
The Wicket Cricket Critic (C J Dennis Poems)
If the cricket critics' naggingMerits stern official gagging -- Which I doubt --How would critical ascetics,With their prosy homiletics, Shut ...
Country Roads ~ Pretty Sally (C J Dennis Poems)
The diggers came from Bendigo, From Albury the drovers,From where the Goulburn waters flowCame bearded teamsters travelling slow. ...
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, ...
Our Cow (C J Dennis Poems)
Down by the slipralls stands our cow Chewing, chewing, chewing,She does not care what folks out there In the great, ...
I Wonder (C J Dennis Poems)
I wonder what the Jacks have got to laugh and laugh about.I'm sure the worms don't see the joke when ...