Johnson’s Antidote (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Down along the Snakebite River, where the overlanders camp, Where the serpents are in millions, all of the most deadly ...
Down along the Snakebite River, where the overlanders camp, Where the serpents are in millions, all of the most deadly ...
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
I ordered this, clean wood box Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift. I would say it ...
Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- Capped: white ...
Out here there are no hearthstones, Hot grains, simply. It is dry, dry. And the air dangerous. Noonday acts queerly ...
The photographic chamber of the eye records bare painted walls, while an electric light lays the chromium nerves of plumbing ...
And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk ...
He watched the old movie unfold, The head-covered man bashing his van into a building, Nodding his head: 'Yes another ...
I Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, ...
Thank Heaven! the crisis- The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last- And the fever called ...
Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme- I will not madly deem that power ...
The 27th Regiment has mutinied at Kalapore; That was the substance of a telegram, which caused great uproar, At Sattara, ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
He rides away with sword and spur, Garbed in his warlike blazonry, With gallant glance and smile for her Upon ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
She is effulgent in the dark halls of town. She is listening but they are hearing. Her skin is blistering ...
A mile behind is Gloucester town Where the flishing fleets put in, A mile ahead the land dips down And ...
Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn That Christ our Saviour was born! Earth's Redeemer, to save us from all ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry, And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry And ...
Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand, And wondrously created by the Almighty's command; And the works of the Almighty ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
Success to Tommy Atkins, he's a very brave man, And to deny it there's few people can; And to face ...
At on time, in America, many years ago, Large gray wolves wont to wander to and fro; And from the ...
'Twas in the year of 1869, and on the 19th of November, Which the people in Southern Germany will long ...
'Twas in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers, A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years; Which was meant ...
Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betray'd her; When Malachi wore the collar of gold, ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
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