A Bush Christmas (C J Dennis Poems)
The sun burns hotly thro' the gumsAs down the road old Rogan comes - The hatter from the lonely ...
C J Dennis Poems on Joy & Excitement (73 Poems)
The Bucolics (C J Dennis Poems)
Ladies and gentlemen: I take this opportunityTo introduce myself and mention that, much as we may deplore the fact, we ...
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 ...
A Matter Of Degree (C J Dennis Poems)
B. SMITH would most undoubtedly be very, very crossIf some rude person called him Jap, and yet, I'm at a ...
Ingavar (C J Dennis Poems)
O, the trees grow straight and the trees grow tall, And the trees grow all around;And the long limbs sprout ...
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 ...
The Chase of Ages (C J Dennis Poems)
Light of my lives! Is the time not yet? Lo, I've brooded on a starThrough many a year, with the ...
The Austral-Aise (C J Dennis Poems)
Fellers of Australier, Blokes an' coves an' coots,Shift yer —- carcases, Move yer —- boots.Gird yer —- loins up, Get ...
Gentlemen! (C J Dennis Poems)
Gentlemen! a politician,One who values his position,Stands, with easy confidence,Here before you on the fence.For he knows full well, good ...
Old Town Types No. 13 – Larrikin Luke (C J Dennis Poems)
Luke Gale, the larrikin lad, dwelt in Larrikin Lane, A low street, a by-street, right at the edge of the ...
Old Town Types No.11 – Great Toll the Smith (C J Dennis Poems)
As first I remember him: A red man, and tall, Great Toll, the blacksmith, filled my childish eye.At its first ...
Fitzmickle Unbends (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Fitzmickle, the martinet, Still with an iron handRules house and home. Like a peevish gnome He barks each curt ...
Playtime (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers!(I address myself to that chosen few -- which includes you,My dear reader -- whoAre men of understanding, bright intellect ...
Galloping Days (C J Dennis Poems)
Galloping, galloping, galloping horses Weave thro' our dreaming in burgeoning Spring;There's sun in our hearts and there's sun on the ...
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 ...
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, ...
In A Forest Garden: A Promise of Spring (C J Dennis Poems)
Spring surely must be near. High over head The kind blue heavens bend to timbers tall;And here, this morning, is ...
A Likely Lad (C J Dennis Poems)
Child of a myriad varied voices calling O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues,Tho' captious critics view your ways ...
Earth’s Oldest Show (C J Dennis Poems)
Not in our public parks, for private gain. This centuries-old precursor of all dramasThat lured babes in old Italy and ...
The Hundredth Year (C J Dennis Poems)
Not that I'd quarrel with the way They celebrates their hundredth yearIn town (said old Pete Parraday), But that don't ...
Aesthete in the Avenue (C J Dennis Poems)
Within the wooded avenue I stood, And I was proud.I looked upon the scene and found it good; For here, ...
‘Erb (C J Dennis Poems)
Do you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort To put ...
Obadiah Bell (C J Dennis Poems)
I am fit and I am well (so said Obadiah Bell.) I take life as it come from day to ...
Early Morning Tea (C J Dennis Poems)
You are growing convalescent As pain's fingers are withdrawn;And you waken in a strange, white room at last; Yet your ...
Kemal – The Posh Pasha (C J Dennis Poems)
We have heard of the mythical lands of the East And of caliphs and sultans galore;Of Haroun al Raschid, of ...
The Eastern Shrike-Tit (C J Dennis Poems)
I am brightly alert and exceedingly pert, And my livery's easily seen;With a bright golden breast and a black-and-white crest, ...
Winter Rhapsody (C J Dennis Poems)
Winter has come; and tardily -- Now little nipping winds are rifeWhere laggard leaves, on many a tree, Still cling ...
Galloping Horses (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, this is the week when no rhymster may rhymeOn the joy of the bush or the ills of the ...
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 ...
The Magpie Lark (C J Dennis Poems)
By lagoons and reedy places,Where the little river races By the lips of dreaming pools Where the soothing water coolsMany ...