The Ballad of the Elder Son (Henry Lawson Poems)
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
WE SET no right above hers, No earthly light nor star,She hath had many lovers, But not as lovers are:They all were ...
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
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 ...
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 ...
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
I'D been right round by overlands to see the world and life,And on the boat at Plymouth I met Johnson ...
Set me back for twenty summers- For I'm tired of cities now-Set my feet in red-soil furrows And my hands upon the ...
It is up from out the alleys, from the alleys dark and vile-It is up from out the alleys I ...
Rolling out to fight for England, singing songs across the sea;Rolling North to fight for England, and to fight for ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, Yet a wreck; None would think Death's finger's hooking Him from deck. Cause of half ...
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