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 Future (45 Poems)
The Men Who Made Australia (Henry Lawson Poems)
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push, There'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trapFrom the ...
Booth’s Drum [1] (Henry Lawson Poems)
They were "ratty" they were hooted by the meanest and the least,When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago ...
The March of Ivan (Henry Lawson Poems)
Are you coming, Ivan, coming?-Ah, the ways are long and slow,In the vast land that we know not-and we never ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
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 ...
Skaal (Henry Lawson Poems)
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
Rejected (Henry Lawson Poems)
She says she's very sorry, as she sees you to the gate; You calmly say 'Good-bye' to her while standing off ...
The Prime of Life (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
The Empty Glass (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room- Ah! The number is one too few-They have deemed their home and ...
The Men Who Made Bad Matches (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
Keeping His First Wife Now (Henry Lawson Poems)
IT'S OH! for a rivet in marriage bonds, And a splice in the knot untied-The sanctity of the marriage tie Is growing ...
The Drums of Ages (Henry Lawson Poems)
DRUMS of all that's right and wrong-of love and hate and scorn,And the new-born baby hears them and it wails ...
Clinging Back (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you see a man come walking down through George Street loose and free,Suit of saddle tweed and soft shirt, ...
Brother, You’ll Take My Hand (Henry Lawson Poems)
NOT to the sober and staid, Leading a quiet life,But to men whose paths are laid Ever through storm and strife-Here is ...
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 ...
Otherside (Henry Lawson Poems)
SOMEWHERE in the mystic future, on the road to Paradise,There's a very pleasant country that I've dreamed of once or ...
That Great Waiting Silence (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
Written Out [1] (Henry Lawson Poems)
Sing the song of the reckless, who care not what they do;Sing the song of a sinner and the song ...
Young Kings and Old (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Young King fights in the trenches and the Old King fights in the rear-Because he is old and feeble, ...
The Heart of the Swag (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, the track through the scrub groweth ever more dreary, And lower and lower his grey head doth bow;For the swagman ...
The Wantaritencant (Henry Lawson Poems)
IT WATCHED ME in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood's homeIt glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my ...
Sheoaks That Sigh When The Wind Is Still (Henry Lawson Poems)
Why are the sheoaks forever sighing? (Sheoaks that sigh when the wind is still)-Why are the dead hopes forever dying? (Dead hopes ...
Lay Your Ears Back and Fight (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHEN you drink of what the poets rave about as "sorrer's cup",And yer mouth, in spite of laughin', gits a ...
As it was in the Beginning (Henry Lawson Poems)
As it was in the beginning, so we'll find it in the end,For a lover, or a brother, or a ...
The Route March (Henry Lawson Poems)
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past? In ...
The Flag of our Destinies (Henry Lawson Poems)
With our boundaries swung to the circling seas and a nation named to the world!And the six-starred flag of our ...
The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
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 ...
The League of Nations (Henry Lawson Poem)
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! The Big Five met in the world's light as many ...