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 Fire (43 Poems)
Lily (Henry Lawson Poems)
I SCORN the man-a fool at most, And ignorant and blind-Who loves to go about and boast "He understands mankind."I thought I ...
The Writer’s Dream (Henry Lawson Poems)
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
The Ghost at the Second Bridge (Henry Lawson Poems)
You'd call the man a senseless fool,- A blockhead or an ass,Who'd dare to say he saw the ghost Of Mount Victoria ...
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 Bush Fire (Henry Lawson Poems)
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
The Ballad of the Rousabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
The Leader and the Bad Girl (Henry Lawson Poems)
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
Song of the Old Bullock-Driv (Henry Lawson Poems)
Far back in the days when the blacks used to ramble In long single file 'neath the evergreen tree,The wool-teams in ...
The Bard of Furthest Out (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE LONGED to be a Back-Blocks Bard, And fame he wished to win-He wrote at night and studied hard (He read The ...
Nemesis (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
The Labour Agitator (Henry Lawson Poems)
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
The Bill of the Ages (Henry Lawson Poems)
He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,He never has ...
The Drums of Battersea (Henry Lawson Poems)
They can't hear in West o' London, where the worst dine with the best-Deaf to all save lies and laughter, ...
The Afterglow (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH, for the fire that used to glow In those my days of old!I never thought a man could grow So callous ...
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 ...
Bill and Jim Fall Out (Henry Lawson Poems)
Bill and Jim are mates no longer-they would scorn the name of mate-Those two bushmen hate each other with a ...
To Jim (Henry Lawson Poems)
I gaze upon my son once more, With eyes and heart that tire,As solemnly he stands before The screen drawn round the ...
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 ...
Australia’s Peril [The Warning] (Henry Lawson Poems)
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,For the wrong we have taken part in and ...
Mary Lemaine (Henry Lawson Poems)
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
The Mountain Splitter (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE WORKS in the glen where the waratah grows, And the gums and the ashes are tall,'Neath cliffs that re-echo the ...
Down the River (Henry Lawson Poems)
I'VE done with joys an' misery, An' why should I repine?There's no one knows the past but me An' that ol' dog ...
The Legend of Mammon Castle (Henry Lawson Poems)
IN THE days that will be olden after many years are gone,Ere the world emerged from darkness floating out into ...
Cinderella (Henry Lawson Poems)
A lonely child with toil o'ertaxed, Sits Cinderella by the fire;Her limbs in weariness relaxed, And in her eyes a sad desire.But ...
Trooper Campbell (Henry Lawson Poem)
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
The Song Of Old Joe Swallow (Henry Lawson Poem)
When I was up the country in the rough and early days, I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's ...
Marshall’s Mate (Henry Lawson Poems)
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
The Shanty On The Rise (Henry Lawson Poem)
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
The Man Who Raised Charlestown (Henry Lawson Poem)
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George - The parson from his pulpit and the ...