The Clerk (C J Dennis Poems)
The unsoiled hand, the sleek, black coat, The senile, ledger-haunted hours,The knowledge that my freeman's vote Is humbly cast to ...
C J Dennis Poems on Money & Wealth (80 Poems)
The Wonders of the One Pound Note (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers!You .... with but a sixpence in your pocket, and you with half a "quid," and you with a ...
Brown’s Tram (C J Dennis Poems)
A city clerk was Henry Brown,Whose suburb knew nor tram nor train;And ev'ry morn he walked to town. From nine ...
Bert (C J Dennis Poems)
Did you ever meet Bert? 'E's all over the town, In offices, shops an' in various places, Cocky an' ...
Bird – Seed (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Pete Parraday, he isn't very wise --Or so the local gossips say -- They love to criticise His crazy ...
City of Dreams (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, we might have a marvellous city Were we only less keen on cashLess avid for things -- more's the ...
Old Town Types No 20 – Mr Blades the Butcher (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Blades, the butcher, was a large and beefy man,"Best him at a cattle deal," 'twas said, "no other can.' ...
Conducted Tour (C J Dennis Poems)
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
More for the Money (C J Dennis Poems)
What are the wild waves saying now that their lengths are changed?In a manner most dismaying are the stations now ...
Old Town Types No. 23 – Little Miss Mix (C J Dennis Poems)
In a rather tiny building at the bottom of the street,With a green door and a window small and very ...
Old Town Types No. 29 – Miss Trapp, The Music Teacher (C J Dennis Poems)
One-and-two-and-three-and-four --You're playing it by ear, boy! Eyes upon the score! Miss Trapp, the music teacher, very prim and staid, ...
If It’s Modern It’s Right (C J Dennis Poems)
By the Mediterranean shore, In the days of the cohorts and legions,When oodles of rain used to pour O'er the ...
‘Mac’ (C J Dennis Poems)
In every little country place, all up and down the land,From ageing cradles of the race to Never-Never Land --From ...
Roamin’ Free (C J Dennis Poems)
The miser sits beside his hoard, The lover tarries by his bride,And he who neither may afford Is free to ...
The Cosinic Curve (C J Dennis Poems)
Callithumpus Kevin Kerr was a young astronomer, Rich and handsome, eligible, sound and single,Somewhat absent as to mind, and peculiarly ...
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 ...
Old Town Types No. 10 – Big Doc Littlejohn (C J Dennis Poems)
Big Doc. Littlejohn, and ugly man and tall,He wasn't very graceful, no part of him was small;Big, frame, big head, ...
In Time (C J Dennis Poems)
In good time, when I am ready, Wondrous schemes shall I unfold;But we must be cautious, steady, Cleaving to the ...
As Old George Said (C J Dennis Poems)
Said old George Jones: "All in a hundred years. 'Tis little time enough, and well may makeThis youthful country proud ...
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 ...
A Post-Cup Tale (C J Dennis Poems)
I'ad the money in me 'and!Fair dinkum! Right there, by the stand. I tole me wife at breakfus' time, ...
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 ...
Landlubbers (C J Dennis Poems)
I nigh drops dead (the bo'sun said) When the gist of things I gripIn the land by these 'ere Southern ...
Her Majesty the Rose (C J Dennis Poems)
Here in my garden at the long day's closeI sing again her Majesty the Rose. The Rose who can with ...
Old Town Types No.1 – The Old Town (C J Dennis Poems)
Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain The ruthless summer suns burned down,And dust-storms, heralding the rain,Swept thro' the street and ...
The Bench and the Blonde in Black (C J Dennis Poems)
His Honor walked into the shop -- For of shopping his Honor was fond.Did she blush? Did her eyes indicate ...
The Down-Hill Track (C J Dennis Poems)
The dawnin' of prosperity Recalls (said old George Jones)When I was young, a song we sung, In none too sober ...
Bendigo (C J Dennis Poems)
A golden maid whose golden voice Calls to the northern lands,Of riches she has had her choice.Twin treasures to make ...
Old Pete Parraday (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Pete Paraday, his mind works very slow;But, when it fastens on a thoughts, he will not let it go.He ...
My Scenario (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, I've got a lovely story that I've thought out all myself. It will make a gorgeous picture, I am ...