The Game (C J Dennis Poems)
Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright, An' the dicky birds is singin' over'ead,An' ...
Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright, An' the dicky birds is singin' over'ead,An' ...
There's a breeze about the mountains, it is singin' in the treesA song to mock the little men who chose ...
Unless you 'ide that axe, she sez, "'E'll 'urt 'imself reel bad.An' after all - Now, Bill, don't cry! - ...
Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise. I know enough to know I'll never knowThe 'uman female ...
Now, when a bloke 'e cracks a bloke fer insults to a skirt, An' wrecks a joint to square a ...
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle. When the sweets of office dangle At a most inviting angle ...
A man's a mug. I've worked the 'ole thing out To-day, down in the orchard where I sat ...
Now Joi, the rebel, he had a son In far, far Gosh where the tall trees wave.Said Joi: "In Gosh ...
Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones, And likewise of Bobadil Brown,Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs ...
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I wokeI saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words ...
She sung a song; an' I sat silent there,Wiv bofe 'ands grippin' 'ard on me chair; Me 'eart, that yesterdee ...
When old ADAM bit the apple, And thereafter had to grappleWith hard toil to earn ...
The Glugs abide in a far, far landThat is partly pebbles and stones and sand, But mainly earth of a ...
'Eroes? Orright. You 'ave it 'ow yeh like. Throw up yer little 'at an' come the glad;But not too much ...
It was thus in the beginning: With a sporting chance of winning, Jones contested an election years ago.He was young, ...
I got so down to it last night, With longin' for what could not be,That nothin' in the world seemed ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
Ole Mother Moon 'oo yanks 'er beamin' dile Acrost the sky when we've grown sick o' day,She's like some fat ...
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,Suddenly I ...
See, I'm writin' to Mick as a bloke to a bloke - To a cobber o' mine at the front ...
There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understandThis is just a little fable of a non-existent ...
Brothers; even those of you who are already in the sear and yellow leaf, and full of years and ...
The veil was rent, and mundane Time merged in Eternity;And I beheld the End of Things. I heard the Last ...
'Er pore dear Par. she sez, "'e kept a store";An' then she weeps an' stares 'ard at the floor. "'Twas ...
I got no time fer wasters, lad, sez 'e, "Give me a man wiv grit," sez Uncle Jim.'E bores 'is ...
Once on a time, a party by the name of Mr. BULLDiscovered that with many schemes his hands were pretty ...
Aw, go write yer tinklin' jingle, an' yer pretty phrases mingle,Fer the mamby-pamby girl, all fluffy frill an' shinin' silk.Them's ...
Follow the river and cross the ford, Follow again to the wobbly bridge,Turn to the left at the notice board, ...
Lord, Thou hast given unto us a land. In Thy beneficence Thou has ordainedThat we should hold a country ...
O ye women! WIMMIN! WEEMIN!!See our tears repentant streamin'!See the pearly drops a-gleamin', Streamin' from our rheumy eye!Mark our weskits ...
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