The Dukite Snake (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A West Australian Bushman's StoryWell, mate, you've asked about a fellowYou met to-day, in a black-and-yellowChain-gang suit, with a peddler's ...
A West Australian Bushman's StoryWell, mate, you've asked about a fellowYou met to-day, in a black-and-yellowChain-gang suit, with a peddler's ...
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
MAJESTIC warder by the Nation's gate,Spike-crowned, flame-armed like Agony or Glory,Holding the tablets of some unknown law,With gesture eloquent and ...
THERE once was a pirate, greedy and bold,Who ravaged for gain, and saved the spoils;Till his coffers were bursting with ...
I KNEW it all my boyhood: in a lonesome valley meadow,Like a dryad's mirror hidden by the wood's dim arches ...
They brought them up from their huts in the fens, The woeful sufferers gaunt and grim;They flocked from the city's noisome ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
I told her a story, a fairy story, My little daughter with eyes of blueAnd with clear, wide gaze as the ...
"WHAT bait do you use," said a Saint to the Devil,When you fish where the souls of men abound?""Well, for ...
HUNGER goes sleeplesslyThinking of food;Evil lies painfullyYearning for good.Life is a confluence:Nature must move,Like the heart of a poet,Toward beauty ...
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