Mostly Slavonic (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
Henry Lawson Poems on Art (11 Poems)
The Bards Who Lived at Manly (Henry Lawson Poems)
The camp of high-class spielers, Who sneered in summer dress,And doo-dah dilettante, And scornful "venuses"-House agents, and storekeepers, All eager they to "bleed"-The bards ...
Cypher Seven [07] (Henry Lawson Poems)
The nearer camp fires lighted, The distant beacons bright-The horsemen on the skyline Are closing in to-night!My brothers, Oh my brothers! Lie down ...
The Separated Women (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE Separated Women Go lying through the land,For they have plenty dresses, And money, too, in hand;They married brutes and drunkards And blackguards ...
Genoa (Henry Lawson Poems)
A long farewell to Genoa That rises to the skies,Where the barren coast of Italy Like our own coastline lies.A sad farewell ...
The Song of the Waste-Paper Basket (Henry Lawson Poems)
O BARD of fortune, you deem me nought But a mark for your careless scorn.For I am the echo-less grave of ...
The Black Tracker (Or: Why He Lost The Track) (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE was a tracker in the force Of wondrous sight (the story ran):-He never failed to track a horse, He never failed ...
Statue of Robert Burns (Henry Lawson Poems)
To a town in Southern landLight of purse I come and lone;And I pause awhile, and standBy a pedestal of ...
They Can Only Drag You Down (Henry Lawson Poems)
Leader, poet, singer, artist, who have struggled long and won,Though the climbing is behind you, now the battle has begun,Shut ...
All Ashore! (Henry Lawson Poems)
The rattling 'donkey' ceases,The bell says we must part,You long slab of good-nature,And poetry and art!We'll miss your smile in ...
Australian Engineers (Henry Lawson Poem)
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...