An Australian Advertisement (Henry Lawson Poems)
WE WANT the man who will lead the van, The man who will pioneer.We have no use for the gentleman, Or the ...
Henry Lawson Poems (510 Poems)
‘Broken Axletree’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
On the Track of Grand Endeavour, on the long track out to Bourke,Past the Turn-Back, and past Howlong, and the ...
Statue of Robert Burns (Henry Lawson Poems)
To a town in Southern landLight of purse I come and lone;And I pause awhile, and standBy a pedestal of ...
Lay Your Ears Back and Fight (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHEN you drink of what the poets rave about as "sorrer's cup",And yer mouth, in spite of laughin', gits a ...
The Pride That Comes After (Henry Lawson Poems)
It knows it all, it knows it all, The world of groans and laughter,It sneers of pride before a fall, But the ...
As it was in the Beginning (Henry Lawson Poems)
As it was in the beginning, so we'll find it in the end,For a lover, or a brother, or a ...
My Father-in-Law and I (Henry Lawson Poems)
MY father-in-law is a careworn man, And a silent man is he;But he summons a smile as well as he can Whenever ...
Only A Sod (Henry Lawson Poems)
It's only a sod, but 'twill break me ould heart Nigh hardened wid toilin' and carin',And make the ould wounds in ...
The Good Old Concertina (Henry Lawson Poems)
'TWAS merry when the hut was full Of jolly girls and fellows.We danced and sang until we burst The concertina's bellows.From distant ...
Success (Henry Lawson Poems)
Did you see that man riding past, With shoulders bowed with care?There's failure in his eyes to last, And in his heart ...
Bonnie New South Wales (Henry Lawson Poems)
It surely cannot be too soon, and never is too late,It tones with all Australia's tune to praise one's native ...
‘Victor’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
AND his death came in December, When our summer was aglow-Like a song that we remember, Like a child's dream long ago,And ...
A Derry on a Cove (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Twas in the felon's dock he stood, his eyes were black and blue;His voice with grief was broken, and his ...
The Two Samaritans and the Tramp (Henry Lawson Poems)
A TRAMP was trampin' on the road- The afternoon was warm an' muggy-And by-and-by he chanced to meet A parsin ridin' in ...
The Route March (Henry Lawson Poems)
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past? In ...
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 ...
The Way of the World (Henry Lawson Poems)
When fairer faces turn from me, And gayer friends grow cold,And I have lost through poverty The friendship bought with gold;When I ...
The Separation (Henry Lawson Poems)
We knew too little of the world, And you and I were good-'Twas paltry things that wrecked our lives As well I ...
The Bonny Port of Sydney (Henry Lawson Poems)
The lovely Port of Sydney Lies laughing to the sky,The bonny Port of Sydney, Where the ships of nations lie.You shall never see ...
The Three Quiet Gentlemen (Henry Lawson Poems)
There is a quiet gentleman a-motoring in France(Oh, don't you hear the honking of a British motor-car?)-Like any quiet gentleman ...
He’s Gone to England for a Wife (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE'S GONE to England for a wife Among the ladies there;And yet I know a lass he deemed The rarest of the ...
The King (II) (Henry Lawson Poems)
And now a son has come againTo keep the peace or strike the blow,And have a long, great, glorious reign,Through ...
The Little Slit in the Tail (Henry Lawson Poems)
I'M GLAD that the Bushmen can't see me now A-doing it tall in the town;I've an inch-brimmed hat on my sun-burnt ...
‘Coralisle’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
Old Fairyland extended farFrom Russian steppes and hills of pine,From where the frozen water are,And thence across the German Rhine.The ...
Before We Were Married (Henry Lawson Poems)
BLACKSOIL PLAINS were grey soil, grey soil in the drought.Fifteen years away, and five hundred miles out;Swag and bag and ...
To a Pair of Blucher Boots (Henry Lawson Poems)
OLD acquaintance unforgotten, Though you may be "ugly brutes"-Though your leather's cracked and rotten, Worn-out pair of Blucher boots.'Tis the richer man ...
Nineteen Nine (Henry Lawson Poems)
There's a light out there in the nearer east In the dawn of Nineteen Nine;There's the old ghost light in the salty ...
Take It Fightin’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHEN you've got no chance at all, Take it fightin'.When you're driven to the wall, Take it fightin'.There are things that we ...
Over the Ranges and Into the West (Henry Lawson Poems)
LET OTHERS sing praise of their sea-girted isles,But give me the bush with its limitless miles;Then it's over the ranges ...
The Scots [A Dirge] (Henry Lawson Poems)
Black Scots and red Scots, Red Scots and black;I hae dealt wi' the red Scot, An' dealt wi' the black.The Red Scot ...