The Listener (C J Dennis Poems)
Why, certainly. Let's listen to the cricket. Oh, I'm quite keen. Test match, I understand.At... What's that? Oh, Australia's at ...
C J Dennis Poems on Doubt & Skepticism (46 Poems)
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 ...
The Way Out (C J Dennis Poems)
There must be some way out, they say. "There must be some way out!We've fallen on an evil day; That ...
Ethics for Infants (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, children, in this lesson of a rather novel sortLet us dwell, however briefly, on the moral phase of sport, ...
The Farmer’s Lament (C J Dennis Poems)
"The backbone of the country and the salt of all the earth" -- That was ...
The Milk Billy (C J Dennis Poems)
So nice it is of you to call . . . Yes; Monday week we done it;Right 'igh-clarse weddin' ...
A Case for Kings (C J Dennis Poems)
I've never had much truck with kings (Said old George Jones). For all my daysMy lot's been cast 'mid common ...
How we backed the Favourite (C J Dennis Poems)
Sure thing, said the grocer; "as far as I know, sir, This horse, Peter Pan, is the safest ...
Art is Long – Hair is Shorter (C J Dennis Poems)
When artists wore a flowing mane,Then, in a sentimental vein, With pastorals they lured the eye, Or sad, sweet scenes ...
The Fall of Fitzmickle (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Fitzmickle, the martinet, Rules with an iron rodHis house and home; 'neath its red-tiled dome He struts like a ...
Intangible Tigers (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching Of moral and maxim in season and outGrows stale; ...
Another Economic Riddle (C J Dennis Poems)
I venerate economists As very learned blokes,But when in paradox they speakTheir meaning oft I vainly seek, Suspecting subtle jokes.They ...
The Traveller (C J Dennis Poems)
As I rode in to Burrumbeet,I met a man with funny feet;And, when I paused to ask him whyHis feet ...
January 2nd (C J Dennis Poems)
How many have you broken up till now?I know that yesterday you made a vow, And most solemnly 'twas spoken; ...
Black-Out (C J Dennis Poems)
These English actors are too mild, Who seek to have their wrongs redressed.No manager may be beguiled By supplication or ...
Inured (C J Dennis Poems)
Young man about to marry, Don't hesitate, I pray;No need for you to tarry If you can only stay.So let ...