#AustralianWriters
Still I’ve the picture of him - F… In a shining dog-cart driving down… Spanking ponies dashing by, Running tandem, stepping high; Silver-plated harness where the su…
Hello, old cobber. Well, what’s… You’re lookin’ awful gloomy and my… Done in your dough? The horses b… Nobody ill? I hope it’s nothin’… Aw, don’t be funny. Foreign what…
Little Tommy Tadpole began to wee… For little Tommy Tadpole had lost… And his mother didn’t know him as… For he wasn’t Tommy Tadpole, but…
‘Alas!’ said the devil, said he to… And his swart face drooped with ca… ‘Life is a liar, a cheat,’ said he 'And the end of it all - despair. Why mourn you here, poor pawn of t…
Now Percival Gregory Grandison-L… He came of a fine old stock. His sire was an eminent K.C.B, But Percival never appeared to be A chip off that shrewd old block.
‘This is the life!’ said Dusty Da… ‘This is the life to hand a man! My happy way is strewn with flower… But why waste money on the showers… ’The hard cash wasted on that bath
Some saw in him a Scottish wreck;… A few proclaimed his genius, but a… That Doctor Andy Deveraux had le… ‘A mighty clever cove,’ they said,… For down at Paddy Clancy’s bar yo…
‘Excuse me if I sit on you,’ the… ‘I fear I’ve been here all the af… ‘Spare excuses,’ said the saucer;… ‘Oh, I’ll stir him up directly,'… ‘Stop your clatter! Stop your cl…
They may be duds or they may be dr… Or legislators heaven-sent; But the A.L.P. for all atones When it gets them into Parliament… Tho’ they talk sheer drivel once t…
Come, let us sing with a right goo… (Sing hey for lifting lay, sing he… Of any old, sunny old, silly old t… (Sing ho for the ballad of a backb… The sun shone brightly overhead,
Knockin’ about (said Benny, the T… By the Rocks an’ Woolloomooloo, Oh, I was a low-brow, right enoug… And a bit of a bounder, too. Kickin’ about with me larrikin ban…
When the Laborites and Liberals a… Are a-calling and a-bawling in the… And the strangers in the gallery a… As the members rear on end and lou… There’s a voice they miss amid the…
‘Well, what tidings today?’ said t… To the burgeoning rose. ‘You are young, yet already you se… Much of life, I suppose.’ Said the rose, 'Oh, this life is…
He has made many meals On the Lib’rals of late, And the way that he feels May be judged by his state; For the fact that he has indigesti…
There is women, yer Worship, of v… An’ some of 'em’s fluffy a’ foolis… An’ some is sispicious an’ mean in… An’ others fair set-like an’ mulis… There is some, as I owns, is real…