The New Chum Jackeroo (Henry Lawson Poems)
Let bushmen think as bushmen will, And say whate'er they choose,I hate to hear the stupid sneer At New Chum Jackaroos.He may ...
Let bushmen think as bushmen will, And say whate'er they choose,I hate to hear the stupid sneer At New Chum Jackaroos.He may ...
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
Sing the song of the reckless, who care not what they do;Sing the song of a sinner and the song ...
WHEN you've managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sortAnd you find the coat or trousers are an ...
A black-sheep, from England, who worked on the run -Riding where the stockmen ride -He sat by the hut when ...
We come with peace and reason, We come with love and light,To banish black self-treason And everlasting night.We know no god nor ...
Heed not the cock-sure tourist, Seeing with English eyes;Stroked at the banquet table Still, with the old stock lies-Pet of a social ...
ON THE moonlighted decks there are children at play,While smoothly the steamer is holding her way;And the old folks are ...
IT WATCHED ME in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood's homeIt glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my ...
'Twas in the felon's dock he stood, his eyes were black and blue;His voice with grief was broken, and his ...
Leader, poet, singer, artist, who have struggled long and won,Though the climbing is behind you, now the battle has begun,Shut ...
We learnt the creed at Hungerford,We learnt the creed at Bourke;We learnt it in the good timesAnd learnt it out ...
THERE'S such a lot of work to do, for such a troubled head!I'm scribbling this against a book, with foolscap ...
'Tis strange on such a peaceful dayWith white clouds flying o'er,That foreign boats are in the bayAs prisoners of war.The ...
With our boundaries swung to the circling seas and a nation named to the world!And the six-starred flag of our ...
Only one old post is standing -- Solid yet, but only one -- Where the milking, and the branding, And ...
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came, With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a ...
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George - The parson from his pulpit and the ...
PART I Queen Hilda rode along the lines, And she was young and fair; And forward on her shoulders fell ...
A day of seeming innocence, A glorious sun and sky, And, just above my picket fence, Black Bonnet passing by. ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
An hour before the sun goes down Behind the ragged boughs, I go across the little run And bring the ...
On a lonely selection far out in the West An old woman works all the day without rest, And she ...
So the time seems come at last, And the drums go rolling past, And above them in the sunlight Labour's ...
The future was dark and the past was dead As they gazed on the sea once more - But a ...
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run ...
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