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 ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
The night came down thro' Deadman's Gap, Where the ghostly saplings bentBefore a wind that tore the fly From many a digger's ...
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,And the march was heavy on man and brute;For the Spirit of Drought ...
BEHOLD! the biased foes of Right Are conscious of their danger,They're startled by the dawning light, So very long a stranger.And fearing ...
He was lengthsman on the railway, and his station scarce deservedThat "pre-eminence in sorrow" of the Majesty he served,But as dear ...
ON THE moonlighted decks there are children at play,While smoothly the steamer is holding her way;And the old folks are ...
Emblems of storm and danger, Spindrift and mountain stern,Plants that welcome the stranger- Seaweed, tussock, and fern.Known to the world-wide ranger, Who sailed ...
The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came, With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a ...
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George - The parson from his pulpit and the ...
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
No church-bell rings them from the Track, No pulpit lights theirblindness-- 'Tis hardship, drought, and homelessness That teach those Bushmen ...
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
Man, is the Sea your master? Sea, and is man your slave? - This is the song of brave men ...
Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity - all states in one. Never has Custom ...
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal, There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
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