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 ...
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 ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push, There'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trapFrom the ...
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
I THOUGHT that silence would be best, But I a call have heard,And, Victor, after all the rest, I well might say ...
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
'Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum 'trap' On the edge of the Never-Never,Where the dead men lie and the ...
It has a "point" of neither sex But comes in guise of both,And, doubly dangerous complex, It is a thing to loathe-A ...
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
Of home, name and wealth and ambition bereft- We are children of fortune and luck:They deny there's a shred of our ...
There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard-Cunning, treacherous, suspicious-feeling softly-grasping hard-Brainy, yet without the ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,For the wrong we have taken part in and ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
He has notions of Australia from the tales that he's been told-Land of leggings and revolvers, land of savages and ...
They towed the Seabolt down the stream, And through the harbour's mouth;She spread her wings and sailed away To seek the sunny ...
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 Lady of the Motor-car she stareth straight ahead;Her face is like the stone, my friend, her face is like ...
The Young King fights in the trenches and the Old King fights in the rear-Because he is old and feeble, ...
THERE has been many a grander deed since man had life to give, And thousands have gone to certain death, eyes ...
OH, this is a song of the old lights, that came to my heart like a hymn;And this is a ...
ON THE moonlighted decks there are children at play,While smoothly the steamer is holding her way;And the old folks are ...
BRAVE the anger of the wealthy! Scorn their bitter lying spite!Tell the Truth in simple language, when you know that ...
Some carry their swags in the Great North-West, Where the bravest battle and die,And a few have gone to their last ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy ...
The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round, Must wrestle the right to ...
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