The Calm (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is,Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the ...
The thrush is in the wattle tree, an', "O, you pretty dear!"He's callin' to his little wife for all the ...
Left, right - left, right . . . We march today for memories (the grizzled Digger said)Memories of lost dreams ...
The sun burns hotly thro' the gumsAs down the road old Rogan comes - The hatter from the lonely ...
When I'm sittin' in me dug-out, with me rifle on me knees, An' a yowlin', 'owlin' chorus comes a-floatin' up ...
Said the Digger: "Soon forgot! Soon forgot, the deeds of war. Better so, may be. . . Why not? Beauty ...
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 ...
This we have said: "We shall remember them." And deep our sorrow while the deed was young.Even as David mourned ...
A little of fretting, a little of getting, A little of slaving and saving, may be;A little of spending, a ...
Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore, Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scoldAt the strange, new passions young ...
Long faces, hangin' lips an' eyes without a smile, Meegrims an' mulligrubs, mournfulness an' moans,Faith in the future gone to ...
Not for any airs and gracesWhen, to lonely, silent places Men return in memory, Come these kindly thoughts of me.But ...
Born to the sun and smiling skies, And bird-songs to the morning flung,To joyousness that never dies In ...
O! Hernia! My hernia. 'Twas here we parted dearA parting that for four long weeks Held me in sickness here.But ...
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