In Spadger’s Lane (C J Dennis Poems)
Ole Mother Moon 'oo yanks 'er beamin' dile Acrost the sky when we've grown sick o' day,She's like some fat ...
C J Dennis Poems on War & Peace (97 Poems)
An Appeal to Women (C J Dennis Poems)
O ye women! WIMMIN! WEEMIN!!See our tears repentant streamin'!See the pearly drops a-gleamin', Streamin' from our rheumy eye!Mark our weskits ...
Culture and Cops (C J Dennis Poems)
Five nights agone I lay at rest On my suburban couch.My trousers on the bedpost hung, Red gold within their ...
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' ...
Jim (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, be the Hokey Fly! sez Peter Begg."Suppose 'e comes 'ome with a wooden leg. Suppose 'e isn't fit to ...
Old Bob Blair (C J Dennis Poems)
I got so down to it last night, With longin' for what could not be,That nothin' in the world seemed ...
The Woes of Bill (C J Dennis Poems)
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,Suddenly I ...
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 ...
Jim’s Girl (C J Dennis Poems)
'Oo is that girl, sez Digger Smith,That never seems to bother with No blokes: the bint with curly 'air? I've ...
‘Got-a-Fag’ (C J Dennis Poems)
He was tall and tough and stringy, with the shoulders of an axeman,Broad and loose, with greenhide muscles, and a ...
War (C J Dennis Poems)
'E sez to me, "Wot's orl this flamin' war? The papers torks uv nothin' else but scraps.An'wot's ole England got ...
Over the Fence (C J Dennis Poems)
'Taint my idea uv argument to call a man a fool,An' I ain't lookin' round for bricks to 'eave at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Listeners Luck (C J Dennis Poems)
My sort, she sez, "don't meet no fairy prince." I can't 'elp 'earin' part uv wot was said ...
The Mooch O’ Life (C J Dennis Poems)
This ev'nin' I was sittin' wiv Doreen, Peaceful an' 'appy wiv the day's work done,Watchin', be'ind the orchard's bonzer green, ...
A Square Deal (C J Dennis Poems)
Dreamin'? I sez to Digger Smith. "Buck up, ole sport, an' smile.Ain't there enough uv joy to-dayTo drive the bogey ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pilot Cove (C J Dennis Poems)
Young friend, 'e sez . . . Young friend! Well, spare me days! Yeh'd think I wus 'is own white ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Armistice: To His Dead Cobber From The Sentimental Bloke (C J Dennis Poems)
I'm sittin' 'ere, Mick - sittin' 'ere today, Feelin' 'arf glum, 'arf sorter - reverent, Thinkin' strange, crooked thorts of ...
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 ...
The Reaper in the Bush (C J Dennis Poems)
He was lyin' on his bunk, In the hut behind the mill,Ravin' like a man wild drunk, Never silent, ...
A Warning to Ladies (C J Dennis Poems)
Deah Ladies, - Let me wawn you, theah are feahful taimes to come,And a mos" ter-ific strugge is at hand; ...
A Song Of Anzac (C J Dennis Poems)
When I'm sittin' in me dug-out, with me rifle on me knees, An' a yowlin', 'owlin' chorus comes a-floatin' up ...