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 ...
Henry Lawson Poems on Sleep (24 Poems)
He Mourned His Master (Henry Lawson Poems)
INTRODUCTIONThe theme is ancient as the hills, With all their prehistoric glory;But yet of Corney and his friend, We've often longed to tell ...
Constable M’Carty’s Investigatio (Henry Lawson Poems)
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
The Fairy West (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
`For’ard’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
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 ...
Bourke (Henry Lawson Poems)
I've followed all my tracks and ways,from old bark school to Leicester Square,I've been right back to boyhood's days, and ...
Black Bonnets (Henry Lawson Poems)
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
Rejected (Henry Lawson Poems)
She says she's very sorry, as she sees you to the gate; You calmly say 'Good-bye' to her while standing off ...
The Empty Glass (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room- Ah! The number is one too few-They have deemed their home and ...
The Firing-Line (Henry Lawson Poems)
They are creeping on through the cornfields yet, and they clamber amongst the rocks,Ere they rush to stab with the ...
Sacred to the Memory of “Unknown” (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still, While the sun goes down in glory-And away o'er lonely plain and hill Still ...
When Your Sins Come Home to Roost (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you fear the barber's mirror when you go to get a crop,Or in sorrow every morning comb your hair ...
The Distant Drum (Henry Lawson Poems)
Republicans! the time is coming!Listen to the distant drumming!Hearken to the whispers humming In the troubled atmosphere.Ye are born to do ...
Old Tunes (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHEN friends are listening round me, Jack, to hear my dying breath,And I am lying in a sleep they say ...
The Flag of our Destinies (Henry Lawson Poems)
With our boundaries swung to the circling seas and a nation named to the world!And the six-starred flag of our ...
[Harry Stephens] (Henry Lawson Poems)
So the world of odds and evens ceased to trouble Harry Stephens, and the niggard road no longer echoes to ...
For’ard’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
Marshall’s Mate (Henry Lawson Poems)
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
The Wander-Light (Henry Lawson Poem)
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
The Sliprails And The Spur (Henry Lawson Poem)
The colours of the setting sun Withdrew across the Western land- He raised the sliprails, one by one, And shot ...
Black Bonnet (Henry Lawson Poem)
A day of seeming innocence, A glorious sun and sky, And, just above my picket fence, Black Bonnet passing by. ...
The Loveable Characters (Henry Lawson Poem)
I long for the streets but the Lord knoweth best, For there I am never a saint; There are lovable ...
The Iron Wedding Rings (Henry Lawson Poem)
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal, There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding ...
In the Street (Henry Lawson Poem)
Where the needle-woman toils Through the night with hand and brain, Till the sickly daylight shudders like a spectre at ...