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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at ...
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
They sunk a post into the ground Where their leaders bade them stop;It was a man's height, and they spiked A crosspiece ...
I mind the river from Mount Frome To Ballanshantie's Bridge,The Mudgee Hills, and Buckaroo, Lowe's Peak, and Granite Ridge.The "tailers" in the ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
When he's over a rough and unpopular shed,With the sins of the bank and the men on his head;When he ...
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 ...
Our hull is seldom painted, Our decks are seldom stoned;Our sails are patched and cobbled And chains by rust marooned.Our rigging is ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
CALL ME traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.And the foe of "law and order", well deserving ...
THE gentlemen of Dickens Were mostly very poor,And innocent of grammar, And of parentage obscure;But rich or poor or thriving, Of high or ...
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
WE THROW us down on the dusty plain When the gold has gone from the west,But we rise and tramp on ...
I have sinned, like others, blindly, without thought and without fear,And my best friends say it kindly, 'You should go ...
WHEN first I came to town, resolved To fight my way alone,No prouder foot than mine e'er trod Upon the pavement stone;But ...
I HAVE written, long years I have written For the sake of my people and right,I was true when the iron ...
They know us not in England yet, their pens are overbold;We're seen in fancy pictures that are fifty years too ...
'Tis a wonderful time when these hours begin, These long 'small hours' of night,When grass is crisp, and the air is ...
From over the leagues of ice and snow, and the miles of scorching sand;From back of the days of long ...
BRAVE the anger of the wealthy! Scorn their bitter lying spite!Tell the Truth in simple language, when you know that ...
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