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 ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
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 ...
Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at ...
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
They sunk a post into the ground Where their leaders bade them stop;It was a man's height, and they spiked A crosspiece ...
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
They proved we could not think nor see, They proved we could not write,They proved we drank the day away And raved ...
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,Sail as far as ships can sail, and ...
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
Long Bill, the captain of the push, was tired of his estate,And wished to change his life and win the ...
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
IT'S OH! for a rivet in marriage bonds, And a splice in the knot untied-The sanctity of the marriage tie Is growing ...
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,And across the distant timber you can SEE the flowing ...
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
CALL ME traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.And the foe of "law and order", well deserving ...
It is up from out the alleys, from the alleys dark and vile-It is up from out the alleys I ...
LET US sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.Ladies ...
She's milking in the rain and dark, As did her mother in the past.The wretched shed of poles and bark, Rent by ...
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