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 ...
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 ...
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
Are you coming, Ivan, coming?-Ah, the ways are long and slow,In the vast land that we know not-and we never ...
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
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 ...
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint,But he comes to me as a little ...
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
When he's over a rough and unpopular shed,With the sins of the bank and the men on his head;When he ...
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
I LISTENED through the music and the sounds of revelry,And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee;I heard ...
He never drew a sword to fight a dozen foes alone,Nor gave a life to save a life no better ...
The strangest things and the maddest things, that a man can do or say,To the chaps and fellers and coves ...
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,Sail as far as ships can sail, and ...
I'D been right round by overlands to see the world and life,And on the boat at Plymouth I met Johnson ...
He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,He never has ...
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room- Ah! The number is one too few-They have deemed their home and ...
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
So the days of my tramping are over, And the days of my riding are done-I'm about as content as a ...
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
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