The Rhymes of Sym (C J Dennis Poems)
Nobody knew why it should be so;Nobody knew or wanted to know. It might have been checked had but someone ...
C J Dennis Poems on Pride (49 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 ...
Rose (C J Dennis Poems)
Ah, wot's the use? she sez. "Lea' me alone! Why can't I go to 'ell in my own way?I never ...
Emily Ann (C J Dennis Poems)
Government muddles, departments dazed,Fear and confusion wherever he gazed; Order insulted, authority spurned, Dread and distraction wherever he turned -Oh, ...
The Stror ‘At Coot (C J Dennis Poems)
Ar, wimmin! Wot a blinded fool I've been! I arsts meself, wot else could I ixpeck?I done me block complete ...
‘A Gallant Gentleman’ (C J Dennis Poems)
A month ago the world grew grey fer me; A month ago the light went out fer Rose.To 'er they ...
Ginger’s Cobber (C J Dennis Poems)
'E wears perjarmer soots an' cleans 'is teeth, That's wot I reads. It fairly knocked me flat,"Me soljer cobber, be ...
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 ...
The Philistine (C J Dennis Poems)
Smith is a very stupid man; He lives next door to me;He has no settled scheme or plan ...
The Also-Ran (C J Dennis Poems)
I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.I don't arst for bokays: ...
The Mendicants (C J Dennis Poems)
Charity, Charity - parson and priest Ever in church and in chapel have taught -"Give ye in charity e'en to ...
Joi, The Glug (C J Dennis Poems)
The Glugs abide in a far, far landThat is partly pebbles and stones and sand, But mainly earth of a ...
The Little Red Dog (C J Dennis Poems)
The Glugs still live in the land of Gosh,Under the rule of the great King Splosh. And they climb the ...
Vi’lits (C J Dennis Poems)
I wus pickin' gipsy vi'lits fer to try an' square Doreen.We 'ad words . . . about pianners - fer ...
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 Leader That Was Pushed (C J Dennis Poems)
Once on a time a general whose name is handed downTo the present generation as a name of high renown ...
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, ...
‘I Dips me Lid’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Young sir, 'E sez . . . Like that . . . It made me feelRomantic like, as if me ...
Son of a Fool (C J Dennis Poems)
Gyved and chained in his father's home, He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;Bowed to the earth in the land of ...
The Builders (C J Dennis Poems)
Behold, I built a fowlhouse in my yard! Two months agone the great work was begun,And ev'ry eventide I labored ...
The Little Homes (C J Dennis Poems)
We have heard the cheering, brothers, We have heard the martial peal;We have seen the soldiers marching And the glint ...
The Heart of the Dove (C J Dennis Poems)
Say, Bo, this little Yewropean warIt grieves our gloryus nation to the core - The vurry core of its great, ...
Doreen (C J Dennis Poems)
I wish't yeh menat it, Bill. Oh, 'ow me 'eart Went out to 'er that evnin' on the beach.I knew ...
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 ...
Langwidge (C J Dennis Poems)
The flamin' cows! 'e ses; 'e did, an' worse; 'Twas 'orrible the langwidge that 'e used.It made me blood run ...
Ballad of Bopard Defied (C J Dennis Poems)
As I came to a playing-field on happy summer dayTwo strudy youths I did espy; at cricket they did play. ...
Suburbia – A Yearn (C J Dennis Poems)
O man with a Position, prithee tell,How is't you mould your sal'ried life so well;Holding in lofty scorn that lowly ...
The Impervious Iceberg (C J Dennis Poems)
I saw him stand, a Polar man, Cold anger in his frigid eye,Facing it wild, unruly clan Who poised their ...
Old Town Types No. 13 – Larrikin Luke (C J Dennis Poems)
Luke Gale, the larrikin lad, dwelt in Larrikin Lane, A low street, a by-street, right at the edge of the ...
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 ...