Mary Lemaine (Henry Lawson Poems)
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
HE WORKS in the glen where the waratah grows, And the gums and the ashes are tall,'Neath cliffs that re-echo the ...
Old Ivan McIvanovitch, with knitted brow of care,Has climbed up from the engine-room to get a breath of air;He slowly ...
I have sinned, like others, blindly, without thought and without fear,And my best friends say it kindly, 'You should go ...
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 ...
Oh, Great White Czar of Russia, who hid your face and ran,You've flung afar the grandest chance that ever came ...
From over the leagues of ice and snow, and the miles of scorching sand;From back of the days of long ...
BEHOLD! the biased foes of Right Are conscious of their danger,They're startled by the dawning light, So very long a stranger.And fearing ...
THE SAND was heavy on our feet, A Christmas sky was o'er us,And half a mile through dust and heat Lake 'Liza ...
He is coming! He is coming! without heralds, without cheers.He is coming! He is coming! and he's been with us ...
IT WATCHED ME in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood's homeIt glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my ...
Why are the sheoaks forever sighing? (Sheoaks that sigh when the wind is still)-Why are the dead hopes forever dying? (Dead hopes ...
In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong,When a singer or reciter gives a story ...
It knows it all, it knows it all, The world of groans and laughter,It sneers of pride before a fall, But the ...
HE'S GONE to England for a wife Among the ladies there;And yet I know a lass he deemed The rarest of the ...
We have lived till these times, brother,We who lived in this;We have not grown old together,Soon our lives must close ...
Well Boory, I have read your "grin",And listened to your whine;I only wish you'd sent it inBefore I printed mine.You ...
'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 ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
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 ...
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- They were Scots of the Riverina, ...
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
By homestead, hut, and shearing-shed, By railroad, coach, and track -- By lonely graves of our brave dead, Up-Country and ...
When God's wrath-cloud is o'er me, Affrighting heart and mind; When days seem dark before me, And days seem black ...
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