Book Contents: Moods Of Ginger Mick (C J Dennis Poems)
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
C J Dennis Poems on Praise (30 Poems)
The Debate (C J Dennis Poems)
He was a Glug of simple charm;He wished no living creature harm. His kindly smile like sunlight fell On all ...
The Seer (C J Dennis Poems)
Somewhere or other, 'tis doubtful where,In the archives of Gosh is a volume rare, A precious old classic that nobody ...
The Martyred Democrat (C J Dennis Poems)
(Begin breezily):In Lady Lusher's drawing-room, where float the strains of ...
On the Road to Jericho (C J Dennis Poems)
It is written: On the road between Jerusalem of oldAnd Jericho, a certain man was plundered of his gold.For he ...
Introduction to Ginger Mick (C J Dennis Poems)
Jist to intraj'uice me cobber, an 'is name is Ginger Mick -A rorty boy, a naughty boy, wiv rude impressions ...
A Woman’s Way (C J Dennis Poems)
Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise. I know enough to know I'll never knowThe 'uman female ...
Cackle (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle. When the sweets of office dangle At a most inviting angle ...
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 ...
The Straight Griffin (C J Dennis Poems)
'Eroes? Orright. You 'ave it 'ow yeh like. Throw up yer little 'at an' come the glad;But not too much ...
The Idolators (C J Dennis Poems)
The veil was rent, and mundane Time merged in Eternity;And I beheld the End of Things. I heard the Last ...
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 ...
Dad (C J Dennis Poems)
I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more;I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A ...
The Call of Stoush (C J Dennis Poems)
Wot price ole Ginger Mick? 'E's done a break - Gone to the flamin' war to stoush the foe.Wus it ...
A Letter To The Front (C J Dennis Poems)
I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is,Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the ...
The Stoush O’ Day (C J Dennis Poems)
Ar, these is 'appy days! An' 'ow they've flown - Flown like the smoke of some inchanted fag;Since dear Doreen, ...
The Boys Out There (C J Dennis Poems)
Why do they do it? I dunno, Sez Digger Smith. "Yeh got me beat.Some uv the yarns yeh 'ear is ...
A Morning Song (C J Dennis Poems)
The thrush is in the wattle tree, an', "O, you pretty dear!"He's callin' to his little wife for all the ...
A Bush Christmas (C J Dennis Poems)
The sun burns hotly thro' the gumsAs down the road old Rogan comes - The hatter from the lonely ...
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 ...
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 - ...
A Message: Armistice Day 1936 (C J Dennis Poems)
I got dreamin' that a message come in some mysterious way From one ole pal of mine, gone West this ...
My Epitaph (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, praise me now if you would pleaseMy soul with soothing flatteries.Praise with my living clay agrees. ...
Definitions (C J Dennis Poems)
We have heard it. Oft we heard it long before we came of age.In whatever fields we practise, art whatever ...
George Jones Reflects (C J Dennis Poems)
It's up an' down, as me father said, An' his as went before him --Good days could never turn his ...
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 ...
Adulations Artful Aid (C J Dennis Poems)
Some of us may be tall, ma'am; Some of us may be dark;Some handsome; tho' not all, ma'am, Are touched ...
To the Memory of Claude Marquet (C J Dennis Poems)
Because to him the wise gods gave Rare gifts, to lesser folk denied,He might have thriven, Mammon's slave,Rich in the ...
‘Jim’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Have you heard the magniloquent, eloquent Jim? The yogi of Yarra, whose silvery tongue,In days of his promise won many ...
The Fowl (C J Dennis Poems)
A noble lesson this should teach, Dear children unto you.If other people's goods you reach,Of rectitude 'twill be a breach,Or ...