The Push (C J Dennis Poems)
Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor, An' struck a light that set the world aflame;Becos ...
C J Dennis Poems on Past (38 Poems)
A Few Remarks on Goats, Asses and the Dead Hand (C J Dennis Poems)
I don't mind kings and dukes and things; I don't mind wigs or maces;I don't mind crowns or robes or ...
The Crusaders (C J Dennis Poems)
Peter the 'Ermit was a 'oly bloke, The parson sez, "wot chivvied coves to war." "Too right," I ...
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 ...
Spike Wegg (C J Dennis Poems)
Me photer's in the papers! 'Oly wars! A 'ero, I've been called in big, black type. I 'ad ...
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' ...
The End of Joi (C J Dennis Poems)
They climbed the trees . . . As was told before,The Glugs climbed trees in the days of yore, When ...
Red Robin (C J Dennis Poems)
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I wokeI saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words ...
The Bleating of the Sheep (C J Dennis Poems)
Lo, I listened to the bleating of the sheep -- Squatters' sheep --And I sat ...
‘I Dips me Lid’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Young sir, 'E sez . . . Like that . . . It made me feelRomantic like, as if me ...
March of Memories (C J Dennis Poems)
Left, right - left, right . . . We march today for memories (the grizzled Digger said)Memories of lost dreams ...
The Interloper (C J Dennis Poems)
The Honourable TORYPHAT addressed the meeting: 'Hem!(Prolonged applause.) Ah - Mistah Chairman, gentlemen. To stemThe tide of Socialism - rabid ...
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 Mixed Crew (C J Dennis Poems)
Tho' it sounds a trifle mystic, Somewhat vague and cabbalistic,When you come to analyse the ...
Aha! Beware (C J Dennis Poems)
Aha! Beware! I know your guilty past! I was a witness of that secret crime.One word! and all your fondest ...
The Cab Horses’ Story (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, you wouldn't imagine, to look at me, That I was a racehorse once.I have done my mile in - ...
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 ...
Anzac Square: What The Digger Said (C J Dennis Poems)
Said the Digger: "Soon forgot! Soon forgot, the deeds of war. Better so, may be. . . Why not? Beauty ...
The Milch Kangaroo (C J Dennis Poems)
Which reminds me, said O'Brien --"And 'tis not a word of lyin' -- Of a summertime way back in eighty-two,Whin ...
Song of Insane Gardener (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, I dance upon the lawn in the cold, white dawn, And I gloat upon the corpses of a countless ...
Autumn Interlude (C J Dennis Poems)
I said goodbye to the bees last Friday week,To blooms, and to things like these, for Winter bleak Was shouting ...
The Broken Sanctuary (C J Dennis Poems)
I 'ad been bushed in city streets, Where the bricks and mortar grow.I 'ad worked me way through the northern ...
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 ...
Kilmore (C J Dennis Poems)
Kilmore cares not who comes nigh.But, with a calm, incurious eye,She sees the swift cars speeding by, Then turns again ...
The Listening Week (C J Dennis Poems)
This is the listening week of the year -- Listening-in.A-cock and alert is the national ear -- ...
Geelong (C J Dennis Poems)
The earliest lady in the land, Her pride of caste is high.Where blue Corio's gleaming strand Dream 'neath a peaceful ...
There’s a Good Time Coming (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a good time coming in the golden by-and-by: And I wish, oh, how I wish that it would come!There's ...
Warrnambool (C J Dennis Poems)
A civic lady, peerly proudOf excellences that here crowd About her trim, well-ordered streets: The visitor she warmly greetsE'er with ...
Carnival Time (C J Dennis Poems)
Now is the season of Carnival. Who's for the sunlit course?Who's for the beat of galloping feet And the day ...
The Lean, Brown Man (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a big, brown man in the hinterland Whom the nation had forgot;He's a stolid man and a patient man ...