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 Woman (55 Poems)
Lily (Henry Lawson Poems)
I SCORN the man-a fool at most, And ignorant and blind-Who loves to go about and boast "He understands mankind."I thought I ...
Brighten’s Sister-In-Law [or The Carrier’s Story] (Henry Lawson Poems)
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
When I Was King (Henry Lawson Poems)
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...
A Fantasy of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
The Last Review (Henry Lawson Poems)
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
`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 ...
Antony Villa (Henry Lawson Poems)
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
The Alleys (Henry Lawson Poems)
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
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 ...
O’Hara, J.P. (Henry Lawson Poems)
James Patrick O'Hara the Justice of Peace,He bossed the P.M. and he bossed the police;A parent, a deacon, a landlord ...
The Leader and the Bad Girl (Henry Lawson Poems)
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
Nemesis (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
The Skyline Riders (Henry Lawson Poems)
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
The Bill of the Ages (Henry Lawson Poems)
He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,He never has ...
The Prime of Life (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
The Men Who Sleep With Danger (Henry Lawson Poems)
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
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 Unknown God (Henry Lawson Poems)
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
When You’re Bad in Your Inside (Henry Lawson Poems)
I REMARKED that man is saddest, and his heart is filled with woe,When he hasn't any money, and his pants ...
Written Afterwards (Henry Lawson Poems)
So the days of my tramping are over, And the days of my riding are done-I'm about as content as a ...
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 ...
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 Gathering of the Brown-Eyed (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
The Sorrows of a Simple Bard (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHEN I tell a tale of virtue and of injured innocence,Then my publishers and lawyers are the densest of the ...
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 ...
The Women of the Town (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is up from out the alleys, from the alleys dark and vile-It is up from out the alleys I ...
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, ...