Mostly Slavonic (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push, There'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trapFrom the ...
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
The nearer camp fires lighted, The distant beacons bright-The horsemen on the skyline Are closing in to-night!My brothers, Oh my brothers! Lie down ...
SO at last a toll they'll levy For the passing fool who sings-Take the harp grown dull and heavy (With the dried ...
HE LONGED to be a Back-Blocks Bard, And fame he wished to win-He wrote at night and studied hard (He read The ...
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
No one lives in Golden Gully, for its golden days are o'er,And its clay shall never sully blucher-boots of diggers ...
A BLANKET low and leaden, Though rent across the west,Whose darkness seems to deaden The brightest and the best;A sunset white and ...
I MIND the days when ladies fair Helped on my overcoat,And tucked the silken handkerchief About my precious throat;They used to see ...
IT IS New Year's Day and I rise to state that here on the Sydney sideThe Bards have commenced to ...
SOMEWHERE in the mystic future, on the road to Paradise,There's a very pleasant country that I've dreamed of once or ...
Sing the song of the reckless, who care not what they do;Sing the song of a sinner and the song ...
I hate the pen, the foolscap fair, The poet's corner, and the page,For Grief and Death are written there, In every land ...
"ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE!" You hear the people shouting. The walls of Mammon tremble ere they fall.ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE! Is this a time for doubting? The poets ...
In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong,When a singer or reciter gives a story ...
WHEN you drink of what the poets rave about as "sorrer's cup",And yer mouth, in spite of laughin', gits a ...
Leader, poet, singer, artist, who have struggled long and won,Though the climbing is behind you, now the battle has begun,Shut ...
Well Boory, I have read your "grin",And listened to your whine;I only wish you'd sent it inBefore I printed mine.You ...
Two poets were born where the skies were fair,To live in the land thereafter;And one was a singer of sorrow ...
I HATE this grinding poverty- To toil, and pinch, and borrow,And be for ever haunted by The spectre of to-morrow.It breaks the ...
When his heart is growing bitter and his hair is growing grey,And he hears the debt-collector knocking several times a ...
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead, 'Tis time the people passed a law ...
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest ...
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