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, ...
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like ...
They were "ratty" they were hooted by the meanest and the least,When they woke the Drum of Glory long ago ...
They sunk a post into the ground Where their leaders bade them stop;It was a man's height, and they spiked A crosspiece ...
JACK DENVER died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a man;Jack ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
Wrap me up in me stockwhip and blanket, And bury me deep down below,Where this piffle and sham won't disgust me, In ...
Oh! the Cross of deepest blue,With the bright stars shining through,That was raised, my sons, for you,On a skirt of ...
CALL ME traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.And the foe of "law and order", well deserving ...
A BLANKET low and leaden, Though rent across the west,Whose darkness seems to deaden The brightest and the best;A sunset white and ...
When you see a man come walking down through George Street loose and free,Suit of saddle tweed and soft shirt, ...
Rise Ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel!Rise ye! for the cursed tyrants crush ye ...
LET OTHERS make the songs of love For our young struggling nation;But I will sing while e'er I live The Songs of ...
Rolling out to fight for England, singing songs across the sea;Rolling North to fight for England, and to fight for ...
Fight through ignorance, want, and care - Through the griefs that crush the spirit;Push your way to a fortune fair, And the ...
They say, in all kindness, I'm out of the hunt-Too old and too deaf to be sent to the Front.A ...
SOMEWHERE in the mystic future, on the road to Paradise,There's a very pleasant country that I've dreamed of once or ...
He's somewhere up in Queensland, The old folks used to say;He's somewhere up in Queensland, The people say to-day.But Somewhere (up in ...
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
OH! the folly, the waste, and the pity! Oh, the time that is flung behind!They are seeking a site for ...
IN THE days that will be olden after many years are gone,Ere the world emerged from darkness floating out into ...
Oh, Great White Czar of Russia, who hid your face and ran,You've flung afar the grandest chance that ever came ...
When you're suffering hard for your sins, old man, When you wake to trouble and sleep ill-Oh, this is the clack ...
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