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 ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
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 ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.I see my country ruined by the wrongs that ...
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
'Tis no tale of heroism, 'tis no tale of storm and strife,But of ordinary boozing, and of dull domestic life-Of ...
James Patrick O'Hara the Justice of Peace,He bossed the P.M. and he bossed the police;A parent, a deacon, a landlord ...
It was old Jerry Brown, Who'd an office in town,And he used to get jocular, very; And he'd go to the Shore When ...
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
OUT in the west, where runs are wide, And days than ours are hotter,Not very far from Lachlan Side There dwelt a ...
MACLEAY STREET looks to Mosman, Across the other side,With brave asphalted pavements And roadway clean and wide.Macleay Street hath its mansions, Its grounds ...
SING the strong, proud song of Labour, Toss the ringing music high;Liberty's a nearer neighbour Than she was in days gone by.Workmen's ...
WHEN I tell a tale of virtue and of injured innocence,Then my publishers and lawyers are the densest of the ...
CALL ME traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.And the foe of "law and order", well deserving ...
Rise Ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel!Rise ye! for the cursed tyrants crush ye ...
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 ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still, While the sun goes down in glory-And away o'er lonely plain and hill Still ...
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, so we'll find it in the end,For a lover, or a brother, or a ...
'Twas in the felon's dock he stood, his eyes were black and blue;His voice with grief was broken, and his ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
Said Grenfell to my spirit, "You've been writing very free Of the charms of other places, and you don't remember ...
The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead, 'Tis time the people passed a law ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
By homestead, hut, and shearing-shed, By railroad, coach, and track -- By lonely graves of our brave dead, Up-Country and ...
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
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