Ruth (Henry Lawson Poems)
All is well-in a prison-to-night, and the warders are crying 'All's Well!'I must speak, for the sake of my heart-if ...
Henry Lawson Poems on Birth (20 Poems)
A Fantasy of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
As Ireland Wore the Green (Henry Lawson Poems)
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.I see my country ruined by the wrongs that ...
Pigeon Toes (Henry Lawson Poems)
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
The Rovers (Henry Lawson Poems)
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
The Rebel (Henry Lawson Poems)
CALL ME traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.And the foe of "law and order", well deserving ...
When The Duke of Clarence Died (Henry Lawson Poems)
LET US sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.Ladies ...
The Scamps (Henry Lawson Poems)
Of home, name and wealth and ambition bereft- We are children of fortune and luck:They deny there's a shred of our ...
The Gentlemen of Dickens (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE gentlemen of Dickens Were mostly very poor,And innocent of grammar, And of parentage obscure;But rich or poor or thriving, Of high or ...
The Three Quiet Gentlemen (Henry Lawson Poems)
There is a quiet gentleman a-motoring in France(Oh, don't you hear the honking of a British motor-car?)-Like any quiet gentleman ...
He’s Gone to England for a Wife (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE'S GONE to England for a wife Among the ladies there;And yet I know a lass he deemed The rarest of the ...
Poverty (Henry Lawson Poems)
I HATE this grinding poverty- To toil, and pinch, and borrow,And be for ever haunted by The spectre of to-morrow.It breaks the ...
Jack Cornstalk in his Teens (Henry Lawson Poems)
"If not in the Garden, he had in the ark,To neither the beasts' nor the passengers' joy.Full many a boyish and monkeyish ...
The Song of Australia (Henry Lawson Poem)
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
The Christ of the ‘Never’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
With eyes that are narrowed to pierce To the awful horizons of land, Through the blaze of hot days, and ...
Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers (Henry Lawson Poem)
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest ...
How the Land was Won (Henry Lawson Poem)
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
The Old Bark School (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
The Roaring Days (Henry Lawson Poem)
The night too quickly passes And we are growing old, So let us fill our glasses And toast the Days ...