Hakim Kahn (C J Dennis Poems)
When first I found this forest place More years ago than I can tell,I met a man of alien race ...
C J Dennis Poems on Wisdom & Knowledge (66 Poems)
Christmas Scene (C J Dennis Poems)
To this green place the tourists troop,By twos, by threes, and group by group, Lads in bright blazers, girls in ...
More for the Money (C J Dennis Poems)
What are the wild waves saying now that their lengths are changed?In a manner most dismaying are the stations now ...
If It’s Modern It’s Right (C J Dennis Poems)
By the Mediterranean shore, In the days of the cohorts and legions,When oodles of rain used to pour O'er the ...
Playtime (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers!(I address myself to that chosen few -- which includes you,My dear reader -- whoAre men of understanding, bright intellect ...
The Lure of Trees (C J Dennis Poems)
I honour all trees well; but, best of all,I love those scarred old veterans, proud and tall, Gazing ...
The Germ Chaser (C J Dennis Poems)
I knew a careful lady onceWho read a book by Dr. Bunce,A wise authority on wogsThat roam about in dust ...
Fred (C J Dennis Poems)
Do you know Fred? Now there's a man to know These days when politics are in the air, An' ...
A Likely Lad (C J Dennis Poems)
Child of a myriad varied voices calling O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues,Tho' captious critics view your ways ...
‘Erb (C J Dennis Poems)
Do you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort To put ...
Mid-Winter Monody (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a bleak, black world without, And the rain falls fast;And the wind, with a whine and a shout, Blows ...
The Expert and The Apricot (C J Dennis Poems)
The orchardist, with hope aglow,Sets out a crop of fruit to grow And sell it wisely where he can, Like ...
The Swagman (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, he was old and he was spare;His bushy whiskers and his hairWere all fussed up and very greyHe said ...
The Creed of Old George Jones (C J Dennis Poems)
A little of fretting, a little of getting, A little of slaving and saving, may be;A little of spending, a ...
The Eastern Shrike-Tit (C J Dennis Poems)
I am brightly alert and exceedingly pert, And my livery's easily seen;With a bright golden breast and a black-and-white crest, ...
The Demon Milk (C J Dennis Poems)
Yer honor, please! the prisoner said, "It isn't wot you think.To look on wine when it is red Or alco'olic ...
Redivivus (C J Dennis Poems)
To-day I took old rhymes that I had written. And read them through, each one unto the end:When with a ...
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 ...
Fruit of Earth (C J Dennis Poems)
The winds that blow about the world (Said Old George Jones)See here all hope to ruin hurled,See there triumphant flags ...
Dinner and Dinty (C J Dennis Poems)
He dreaded not dark, nor the lonely road, For the world, as he knew it, was kind.Nor threat of the ...
Ballad of Captious Critics (C J Dennis Poems)
Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore, Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scoldAt the strange, new passions young ...
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 ...
A Case for Kings (C J Dennis Poems)
I've never had much truck with kings (Said old George Jones). For all my daysMy lot's been cast 'mid common ...
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 ...
The Weary Philosopher (C J Dennis Poems)
I can conceive no heav'nly blissMore perfectly complete than this: To sit and smoke and idly chew Reflection's cud, with ...
Arch Criminal (C J Dennis Poems)
When muddled mentors take the stage To gird against our erring,They simulate an awful rage,They funk the task and straight ...
Cup Couplets (C J Dennis Poems)
Out of great wisdom, long stored up,I would write me a rune of the Melbourne Cup.Out of experience, grave and ...
Fire Bugs (C J Dennis Poems)
Look 'ere. I'll bet a 'arf-a-crown To anythink you like to name (said Bushy Bill),If country fellers went to town,An' ...
The Faith of Old George Jones (C J Dennis Poems)
War raged around this troubled world, When I was but a lad,And into battle men were hurled, As some ambition ...
The Warrior King (C J Dennis Poems)
Albert, King of the Belgians, Lived for his whole reign thro'The father and friend of his people, Soldier and statesman, ...