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 ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
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 ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
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 ...
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...
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 ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
SO YER trav'lin' for yer pleasure while yer writin' for the press?An' yer huntin' arter "copy"?-well, I've heer'd o' that. ...
WE SET no right above hers, No earthly light nor star,She hath had many lovers, But not as lovers are:They all were ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.I see my country ruined by the wrongs that ...
The camp of high-class spielers, Who sneered in summer dress,And doo-dah dilettante, And scornful "venuses"-House agents, and storekeepers, All eager they to "bleed"-The bards ...
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
He comes from out the ages dim- The good Samaritan;I somehow never pictured him A fat and jolly man;But one who'd little ...
"Call that a yarn!" said old Tom Pugh, "What rot! I'll lay my hatI'll sling you a yarn worth more nor ...
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
You'd call the man a senseless fool,- A blockhead or an ass,Who'd dare to say he saw the ghost Of Mount Victoria ...
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 ...
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push, There'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trapFrom the ...
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
I THOUGHT that silence would be best, But I a call have heard,And, Victor, after all the rest, I well might say ...
Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at ...
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
PAT M'DURMER brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten : 'There are lively days before ye-commin Parlymint's dissolved!'And the boys ...
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