And the Bairns Will Come (Henry Lawson Poems)
So you've seen at last what we have seen so long through scalding tears:You have found what we-the People-we have ...
So you've seen at last what we have seen so long through scalding tears:You have found what we-the People-we have ...
WHAT have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year?With a nation born to the ages and a ...
I HAVE written, long years I have written For the sake of my people and right,I was true when the iron ...
Listen! The end draws nearer, Nearer the morning-or night-And I see with a vision clearer That the beginning was right!These shall be ...
ON THE moonlighted decks there are children at play,While smoothly the steamer is holding her way;And the old folks are ...
I've just received a letter from a chum in Maoriland,He's working down in Auckland where he days he's doing grand,The ...
I Looked upon the lilies When the morning sun was low,And the sun shone through a lily With a softened honey glow.A ...
LET OTHERS sing praise of their sea-girted isles,But give me the bush with its limitless miles;Then it's over the ranges ...
'Twas a land set apart for a nationPredestined for times like these -Se apart, in the Great Creation,By its place ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
Out West, where the stars are brightest, Where the scorching north wind blows, And the bones of the dead gleam ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came, With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a ...
When you've knocked about the country-been away from home for years; When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
An hour before the sun goes down Behind the ragged boughs, I go across the little run And bring the ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
Do you think, you slaves of a thousand years to poverty, wealth and pride, You can crush the spirit that ...
When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum, Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote ...
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal, There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding ...
The Channel fog has lifted - And see where we have come! Round all the world we've drifted, A hundred ...
Where the needle-woman toils Through the night with hand and brain, Till the sickly daylight shudders like a spectre at ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
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