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 ...
C J Dennis Poems on People (37 Poems)
Git-Yer-Gun (C J Dennis Poems)
Thus it happened .... Let me mention, lest I raise an unsought quarrel, This occurred in times long vanished, in ...
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 ...
The Great God Guff (C J Dennis Poems)
There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understandThis is just a little fable of a non-existent ...
A Ballad for Elderly Kids (C J Dennis Poems)
Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones, And likewise of Bobadil Brown,Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs ...
A War March (C J Dennis Poems)
Ow! Wow! Wow!(Funeral note sustained by flutes, suggesting a long-bodied, short-legged, large-headed dog in anguish.)Ow! Wow!We are the people who ...
Wheat (C J Dennis Poems)
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
Hymn of Futility (C J Dennis Poems)
Lord, Thou hast given unto us a land. In Thy beneficence Thou has ordainedThat we should hold a country ...
Ogs (C J Dennis Poems)
It chanced one day, in the middle of May, There came to the great King SploshA policeman, who said, while ...
Brothers O’ Mine (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers o' mine, brothers o' mine,All the world over, from pole to pole --All of them brothers of mine and ...
The Apologist (C J Dennis Poems)
Dear friends, I'm Deakin....No; no mistake,You're wide awake.It's ALF that's speakin'...I wish to makeA few remarks about - Eh? What,O, ...
‘Paw’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Haw!Ai've just obteened a pension for mai Paw.And you should hev seen the people that were theah. Re-ally, it was ...
The Logic Of Anti-Sosh (C J Dennis Poems)
Mister Chairman; - er - ah - when We right-thinking business men Are treated with ...
A Dirge of the Morning After (C J Dennis Poems)
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (wailing dismally):"Who can deliver us, Lord of our destiny! Out of the depths comes our passionate ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Bridge Across the Crick (C J Dennis Poems)
Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking Strove in an election fight; And you'd think, to hear them talking, ...
Granny Discovers Another Tiger (C J Dennis Poems)
That's him!! The authentic, identical beast! The Unionist tiger, full brother to "Sosh"!I know by the prowl of him.Hark to ...
The I’d like to be…….. series (C J Dennis Poems)
The SailorI'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff -Calling out, "Ship ahoy!" in manly tones ...
The High Priest (C J Dennis Poems)
Nay, why do foolish politicians strive To win a fleeting popularity?In vain, in vain, they jealously contrive To turn the ...
Cherry (C J Dennis Poems)
Some I got with amber stems an' some with silver bands,Bent ones an' straight ones an' all sorts o' brands.A ...
Old Town Types No. 25 – Black Peter Myloh (C J Dennis Poems)
A man was Peter Myloh, strong-browed and black of face,Australian Aboriginal, son of a dark doomed race. And even I, ...
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 Spoilers (C J Dennis Poems)
Ye are the Great White People, masters and lords of the earth,Spreading your stern dominion over the world's wide girth.Here, ...
The Mellowing Of Joe (C J Dennis Poems)
When the Laborites and Liberals are bickering, Are a-calling and a-bawling in the House,And the strangers in the gallery are ...
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.' ...
The Bush Veteran (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Pete Parraday, he toddles up the road,"Dangin'" things and "darn in'" things and hefting of his load For yesterday ...
Song of Snobs (C J Dennis Poems)
When Leonardo was a lad there was a certain setWho snubbed him most outrageously - in fact, they snub him ...
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 ...