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 ...
INTRODUCTIONThe theme is ancient as the hills, With all their prehistoric glory;But yet of Corney and his friend, We've often longed to tell ...
Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at ...
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
Comes the British bulldog first-solid as a log-He's so ugly in repose that he's a handsome dog;Full of mild benevolence ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
HE LONGED to be a Back-Blocks Bard, And fame he wished to win-He wrote at night and studied hard (He read The ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
LET US sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.Ladies ...
But what's the use of writing 'bush'- Though editors demand it-For city folk, and farming folk, Can never understand it.They're blind to ...
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,And the march was heavy on man and brute;For the Spirit of Drought ...
The kangaroo was formed to run,but not from man alone -it ran before the horse or gunor native dog was ...
Dust, dust, dust and a dog -Oh! The sheep-dog won't be last.When the long, long, shadow of the old bay ...
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or ...
An hour before the sun goes down Behind the ragged boughs, I go across the little run And bring the ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the ...
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