The Men Who Made Bad Matches (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
Henry Lawson Poems on Sadness (98 Poems)
He Had So Much Work To Do (Henry Lawson Poems)
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
A Slight Misunderstan (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...
The Drums of Battersea (Henry Lawson Poems)
They can't hear in West o' London, where the worst dine with the best-Deaf to all save lies and laughter, ...
The Afterglow (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH, for the fire that used to glow In those my days of old!I never thought a man could grow So callous ...
A Slight Misunderstanding at the Jasper Gate (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...
I’d Back Again the World (Henry Lawson Poems)
She's not like an empress, And crowned with raven hair,She is not "pert an' bonny," Nor "winsome, wee, an' fair."But when a ...
The Drums of Ages (Henry Lawson Poems)
DRUMS of all that's right and wrong-of love and hate and scorn,And the new-born baby hears them and it wails ...
The Peace Maker (Henry Lawson Poems)
It has a "point" of neither sex But comes in guise of both,And, doubly dangerous complex, It is a thing to loathe-A ...
Robbie’s Statue (Henry Lawson Poems)
Grown tired of mourning for my sins- And brooding over merits-The other night with bothered brow I went amongst the spirits;And I ...
The Separated Women (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE Separated Women Go lying through the land,For they have plenty dresses, And money, too, in hand;They married brutes and drunkards And blackguards ...
Do You Think That I Do Not Know? (Henry Lawson Poems)
They say that I never have written of love,As a writer of songs should do;They say that I never could ...
When The Duke of Clarence Died (Henry Lawson Poems)
LET US sing in tear-choked numbers how the Duke of Clarence went,Just to make a royal sorrow rather more pre-eminent.Ladies ...
To Jack (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO, I've battled it through on my own, Jack, I have done with all dreaming and doubt.Though "stoney" to-night and alone, ...
To Jim (Henry Lawson Poems)
I gaze upon my son once more, With eyes and heart that tire,As solemnly he stands before The screen drawn round the ...
Brother, You’ll Take My Hand (Henry Lawson Poems)
NOT to the sober and staid, Leading a quiet life,But to men whose paths are laid Ever through storm and strife-Here is ...
‘Let’s Be Fools To-Night’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
We, three men of commerce, Striving wealth to raise,See but little promise In the coming days;Though our hearts are brittle, Hardened near to ...
A Mixed Battle Song (Henry Lawson Poems)
Lo! the Boar's tail is salted, and the Kangaroo's exalted,And his right eye is extinguished by a man-o'-warsman's cap;He is ...
My Army, O, My Army! (Henry Lawson Poems)
My Army, O, my army! The time I dreamed of comes!I want to see your colours; I want to hear ...
The Bulletin Hotel (Henry Lawson Poems)
I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand-Which, I'm told, is very tony-and its front looks ...
A Dan Yell (Henry Lawson Poems)
I WISH I'd never gone to board In that house where I metThe touring lady from abroad, Who mocks my nightmares yet.I ...
Gipsy Too (Henry Lawson Poems)
If they missed my face in Farmers' Arms When the landlord lit the lamp,They would grin and say in their country ...
A Study in the ‘Nood’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
He was bare-we don't want to be rude- (His condition was owing to drink)They say his condition was nood, Which amounts to the ...
The Federal City (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH! the folly, the waste, and the pity! Oh, the time that is flung behind!They are seeking a site for ...
The Lady of the Motor Car (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Lady of the Motor-car she stareth straight ahead;Her face is like the stone, my friend, her face is like ...
Written Out [1] (Henry Lawson Poems)
Sing the song of the reckless, who care not what they do;Sing the song of a sinner and the song ...
The Cattle-Dog’s (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,And the march was heavy on man and brute;For the Spirit of Drought ...
Write by Return (Henry Lawson Poems)
CLERK, corresponding, "Rooster and Comb",Here I sit idle "Thinking of home";I must be grafting- Living to earn,More correspondence, "Write by return."Clerk in employ of "Shoddy ...
Down the River (Henry Lawson Poems)
I'VE done with joys an' misery, An' why should I repine?There's no one knows the past but me An' that ol' dog ...
Genoa (Henry Lawson Poems)
A long farewell to Genoa That rises to the skies,Where the barren coast of Italy Like our own coastline lies.A sad farewell ...