With Dickens (Henry Lawson Poems)
In Windsor Terrace, number four, I've taken my abode-A little crescent from the street, A bight from City Road;And, hard up and ...
Henry Lawson Poems on Joy & Excitement (31 Poems)
Brighten’s Sister-In-Law [or The Carrier’s Story] (Henry Lawson Poems)
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
‘Possum’ A Lay of New Chumland (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
The Fairy West (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
Hannah Thomburn (Henry Lawson Poems)
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
The Old, Old Story and the New Order (Henry Lawson Poems)
They proved we could not think nor see, They proved we could not write,They proved we drank the day away And raved ...
‘Bound for the Lord-Knows-Where’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Where are you going with your horse and bike, And the townsfolk still at rest?Where are you going, with your swag ...
The Friends of Fallen Fortunes (Henry Lawson Poems)
The battlefield behind us, And night loomed on the track;The Friends of Fallen Fortunes Were riding at my back.Save those who lay ...
The Stranger’s Friend (Henry Lawson Poems)
The strangest things and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,To the chaps and fellers and coves ...
The Skyline Riders (Henry Lawson Poems)
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
The Shakedown on the Floor (Henry Lawson Poems)
Set me back for twenty summers- For I'm tired of cities now-Set my feet in red-soil furrows And my hands upon the ...
A Little Mistake (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum 'trap' On the edge of the Never-Never,Where the dead men lie and the ...
Do You Think That I Do Not Know? (Henry Lawson Poems)
They say that I never have written of love,As a writer of songs should do;They say that I never could ...
‘Let’s Be Fools To-Night’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
We, three men of commerce, Striving wealth to raise,See but little promise In the coming days;Though our hearts are brittle, Hardened near to ...
But What’s The Use (Henry Lawson Poems)
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 ...
A Dirge of Joy (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh! this is a joyful dirge, my friends, and this is a hymn of praise;And this is a clamour of ...
Billy of Queensland (Henry Lawson Poems)
"QUEENSLAND," he heads his letters-that's all: The date, and the month, and the year in brief;He often sends me a cheerful ...
At the Tug-O-War (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Twas in a tug-of-war where I-the guvnor's hope and pride-Stepped proudly on the platform as the ringer on my side;Old ...
The Days when we went Swimming (Henry Lawson Poems)
The breezes waved the silver grass, Waist-high along the siding,And to the creek we ne'er could pass Three boys on bare-back riding;Beneath ...
Andy’s Return (Henry Lawson Poems)
With pannikins all rusty, And billy burnt and black,And clothes all torn and dusty, That scarcely hide his back;With sun-cracked saddle-leather, And knotted ...
Lake Eliza (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE SAND was heavy on our feet, A Christmas sky was o'er us,And half a mile through dust and heat Lake 'Liza ...
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 ...
New Life, New Love (Henry Lawson Poems)
The breezes blow on the river below, And the fleecy clouds float high,And I mark how the dark green gum trees ...
The Little Slit in the Tail (Henry Lawson Poems)
I'M GLAD that the Bushmen can't see me now A-doing it tall in the town;I've an inch-brimmed hat on my sun-burnt ...
Jack Cornstalk in his Teens (Henry Lawson Poems)
"If not in the Garden, he had in the ark,To neither the beasts' nor the passengers' joy.Full many a boyish and monkeyish ...
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 Poets Of The Tomb (Henry Lawson Poem)
The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead, 'Tis time the people passed a law ...
The Shearers Dream (Henry Lawson Poem)
O I dreamt I shore in a shearing shed and it was a dream of joy For every one of ...
Andy’s Gone With Cattle (Henry Lawson Poems)
Our Andy's gone to battle now 'Gainst Drought, the red marauder; Our Andy's gone with cattle now Across the Queensland ...
The Teams (Henry Lawson Poem)
A cloud of dust on the long white road, And the teams go creeping on Inch by inch with the ...