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' ...
C J Dennis Poems on Happiness (28 Poems)
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' ...
It Was Never Contemplated (C J Dennis Poems)
When old ADAM bit the apple, And thereafter had to grappleWith hard toil to earn ...
The Great God Guff (C J Dennis Poems)
There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understandThis is just a little fable of a non-existent ...
Old Bob Blair (C J Dennis Poems)
I got so down to it last night, With longin' for what could not be,That nothin' in the world seemed ...
The Bleating of the Sheep (C J Dennis Poems)
Lo, I listened to the bleating of the sheep -- Squatters' sheep --And I sat ...
A Guide for Poits (C J Dennis Poems)
(Compiled by the Sentimental Bloke)I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in song An' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,I ...
Breathing-Time (C J Dennis Poems)
Peace, perfect peace. . . . Come, lay aside your gun.The danger zone is past; the gauntlet run.The bark of ...
Grey Thrush (C J Dennis Poems)
Grey thrush was in the wattle tree, an', "Oh, you pretty dear!"He says in his allurin' way; an' I remarks, ...
Hopeful Hawkins (C J Dennis Poems)
Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat, And to bait him was our chiefest form of ...
A Song Of Anzac (C J Dennis Poems)
When I'm sittin' in me dug-out, with me rifle on me knees, An' a yowlin', 'owlin' chorus comes a-floatin' up ...
Ballad of Bopard Defied (C J Dennis Poems)
As I came to a playing-field on happy summer dayTwo strudy youths I did espy; at cricket they did play. ...
In The Doldrums (C J Dennis Poems)
Friends!Have you, too, noticed that calm which descendsUpon affairs today?Search as we may,The papers have few things indeed to sayOf ...
Old Town Types No. 25 – Black Peter Myloh (C J Dennis Poems)
A man was Peter Myloh, strong-browed and black of face,Australian Aboriginal, son of a dark doomed race. And even I, ...
The Spotted Heifers (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Jeremiah JeffersOwned a pair of spotted heifersThese he sold for two pounds tenTo Mr Robert Raymond WrenWho reared them ...
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 ...
Frank and his Little Bank (C J Dennis Poems)
When he was quite a small boy, Frank Was fond of useful playthings;So he was given a toy bank That ...
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 ...
Cataclysm (C J Dennis Poems)
We curse our lot; we gird at fate; Like peevish children we complain;Hope dies, and life grows desperate Because of ...
Ideal And Aftermath (C J Dennis Poems)
I wed him because he looked nice (said she) And I feared to be left on the shelf.For I wouldn't ...
Redivivus (C J Dennis Poems)
To-day I took old rhymes that I had written. And read them through, each one unto the end:When with a ...
Colac (C J Dennis Poems)
A lady plump and pleasing And generous and free,Her life is spent in sleek content Beside her inland sea;And, round ...
The Weary Philosopher (C J Dennis Poems)
I can conceive no heav'nly blissMore perfectly complete than this: To sit and smoke and idly chew Reflection's cud, with ...
One Happy Man (C J Dennis Poems)
Today I met a happy man Greeting the glad new year.About his face the sunbeams ranAnd danced, as straightaway he ...
Yarra Glen (C J Dennis Poems)
Where the Yarra dreams along, Now in shadow, now in sun,Murmuring a drowsy song, Here she rests, the placid one.Here ...
Melba (C J Dennis Poems)
Born to the sun and smiling skies, And bird-songs to the morning flung,To joyousness that never dies In ...
The Alternative – 1927 (C J Dennis Poems)
Betty Yack, of Mittyack, charming was and young;But Betty Yack of Mittyack, had a bitter tongue.And she married her one ...
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 ...