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 ...
C J Dennis Poems on World (96 Poems)
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, ...
Haw! (C J Dennis Poems)
Haw! Good fellow I'm not doubting Your intentions are all right,And your general appearance Is intelligent and bright;But the question ...
Aha! Beware (C J Dennis Poems)
Aha! Beware! I know your guilty past! I was a witness of that secret crime.One word! and all your fondest ...
K’Shoo (C J Dennis Poems)
A Seasodable RhybeWhen your dose is code as barble, Ad you sduffle all the day,Ad your head id is behavig ...
The Hoary Precedent (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr. Pericles, M.P., In four-sixty-nine B.C.,Outed Cimon at a general election; Premier Cimon, thuswise ex-ed, Was quite naturally vexed,And ...
A Chantey of Labor’s Lost (C J Dennis Poems)
There on the quay sobbed Bones, A.B., And he took me by the hand.Says he to me, "I've quit the ...
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, ...
Bert (C J Dennis Poems)
Did you ever meet Bert? 'E's all over the town, In offices, shops an' in various places, Cocky an' ...
Old Town Types No. 12 – Mrs Munn, The Nurse (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Munn, the midwife - Mother Munn they called her --Wallowed in the world's woes; sickness ne'er appalled her. She ...
The Mystic (C J Dennis Poems)
An "Ode to the Moon" did he indite With his two-and-half soul-power.('Twas the child of a starlit summer night, Begot ...
Frank and his Little Bank (C J Dennis Poems)
When he was quite a small boy, Frank Was fond of useful playthings;So he was given a toy bank That ...
The Anonymous Altruist (C J Dennis Poems)
A mysterious cove in the Customs -- The boss, so to speak, of the Ban --I have blamed a good ...
It Isn’t Cricket (C J Dennis Poems)
Hello, old cobber. Well, what's on your mind? You're lookin' awful gloomy and mysteriousDone in your dough? The horses been ...
Weary (C J Dennis Poems)
Aw, I'm sick o' the whole darn human race, An' I'm sick o' this mundane ball;I'm sick o' the sight ...
Old Jim Shore (C J Dennis Poems)
He prospered in an olden day When down the rutted waggon track,Thro' scenes that seem a world away, His bullocks ...
In Time (C J Dennis Poems)
In good time, when I am ready, Wondrous schemes shall I unfold;But we must be cautious, steady, Cleaving to the ...
Obadiah Bell (C J Dennis Poems)
I am fit and I am well (so said Obadiah Bell.) I take life as it come from day to ...
Cataclysm (C J Dennis Poems)
We curse our lot; we gird at fate; Like peevish children we complain;Hope dies, and life grows desperate Because of ...
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 ...
Armistice Day 1933 (C J Dennis Poems)
This we have said: "We shall remember them." And deep our sorrow while the deed was young.Even as David mourned ...
An Old Man Muses (C J Dennis Poems)
Can it be I -- this Hindenburg, deferring To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charmsAnd all this mummery about me stirring? ...
Earth’s Oldest Show (C J Dennis Poems)
Not in our public parks, for private gain. This centuries-old precursor of all dramasThat lured babes in old Italy and ...
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 ...
Renascence (C J Dennis Poems)
World war had come - and gone. It seemed the end. Spent, broken, by the last despair oppressed,Unfitted to ...
A Quest for Tophet (C J Dennis Poems)
'Twas a hell of a Hell they glimpsed, my son, In superstitious daysWhen cultured man had scarce begun To ...
Masefield, Poet And Man (C J Dennis Poems)
He comes as a man who has lived 'mid men With the gloss and the polish off;And truth flows free ...
The Barter Boom (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, since man became a martyr To this economic stress,He has sought relief, in barter, From financial wretchedness;So, dispensing with ...
Ma Mammy’s Done Me In: A New Theme Song (C J Dennis Poems)
MA-A-AMMY! Ma-a-ammy! The sun's gone east And he's left out west Where, in old days, the sun shone best.Ma-a-ammy! Ma-a-ammy! ...
Accent Conscious (C J Dennis Poems)
Trouble brews along the border for the word has got around That blokes an' coves an' coots must mind their ...