With Dickens (Henry Lawson Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
I REMARKED that man is saddest, and his heart is filled with woe,When he hasn't any money, and his pants ...
LET US sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.Ladies ...
REGION of damper and junk and tea, Region of pastures wide!The fairest spots in the world to me Are out on the ...
'Tis William Street, the link street, That seems to stand alone;'Tis William Street, the vague street, With terraces of stone:That starts with ...
Where's the steward?-Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do-I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with ...
Rolling out to fight for England, singing songs across the sea;Rolling North to fight for England, and to fight for ...
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 ...
It was the King of Virland -0 he was angry then -That rode to crush rebellionWith twenty thousand men.His enemies ...
I HAVE written, long years I have written For the sake of my people and right,I was true when the iron ...
If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine,If you hint of higher breeding by a word ...
THERE was a tracker in the force Of wondrous sight (the story ran):-He never failed to track a horse, He never failed ...
It knows it all, it knows it all, The world of groans and laughter,It sneers of pride before a fall, But the ...
PRIDE, selfishness in every line, And on its face a frown,It stands, a sceptre in its hand, And points forever down.And who ...
Ned knew I was short of tobacco one day,And that I was too proud to ask for it;He hated such ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
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