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 ...
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 ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
I SCORN the man-a fool at most, And ignorant and blind-Who loves to go about and boast "He understands mankind."I thought I ...
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
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 was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
When at first in foreign parts Was her flag unfurled,England was a Gipsy lass Peddling round the world.Sailing on the Spanish Main- Everywhere ...
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 ...
They proved we could not think nor see, They proved we could not write,They proved we drank the day away And raved ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
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 ...
When he's over a rough and unpopular shed,With the sins of the bank and the men on his head;When he ...
Our hull is seldom painted, Our decks are seldom stoned;Our sails are patched and cobbled And chains by rust marooned.Our rigging is ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
SO at last a toll they'll levy For the passing fool who sings-Take the harp grown dull and heavy (With the dried ...
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
They can't hear in West o' London, where the worst dine with the best-Deaf to all save lies and laughter, ...
OH, for the fire that used to glow In those my days of old!I never thought a man could grow So callous ...
On western plain and eastern hill Where once my fancy ranged,The station hands are riding still And they are little changed.But I ...
IT'S OH! for a rivet in marriage bonds, And a splice in the knot untied-The sanctity of the marriage tie Is growing ...
The Wireless tells and the cable tellsHow our boys behaved by the Dardanelles.Some thought in their hearts "Will our boys ...
There were ten of us there on the moonlit quay, And one on the for'ard hatch;No straighter mate to his mates ...
She's milking in the rain and dark, As did her mother in the past.The wretched shed of poles and bark, Rent by ...
There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard-Cunning, treacherous, suspicious-feeling softly-grasping hard-Brainy, yet without the ...
FROM north to south throughout the year The shearing seasons run,The Queensland stations start to shear When Maoriland has done;But labour's cheap ...
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