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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
He comes from out the ages dim- The good Samaritan;I somehow never pictured him A fat and jolly man;But one who'd little ...
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 SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
Texas Jack, you are amusin'. By Lord Harry, how I laughedWhen I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks ...
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
THE MOTOR CAR is sullen, like a thing that should not be;The motor car is master of Smart Society.'Twas born ...
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
FROM Crow's Nest here by Sydney town Where crows had nests of oldI see the Range where day goes down- The dim ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
The Lady of the Motor-car she stareth straight ahead;Her face is like the stone, my friend, her face is like ...
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,And the march was heavy on man and brute;For the Spirit of Drought ...
THERE was a tracker in the force Of wondrous sight (the story ran):-He never failed to track a horse, He never failed ...
THEY SAY he was thrown and run over, But that is sheer nonsense, of course:I taught him to ride when a ...
The kangaroo was formed to run,but not from man alone -it ran before the horse or gunor native dog was ...
If yer gotter corf about yer,Gotter corf -Gotter corf -If yer gotter corf about yer,Gotter cord -Feelin' orf -Have some ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George - The parson from his pulpit and the ...
The colours of the setting sun Withdrew across the Western land- He raised the sliprails, one by one, And shot ...
They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise; May Carney looked up in the bushranger's eyes: `Oh! ...
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
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