#AustralianWriters
Here in my garden at the long day’… I sing again her Majesty the Rose… The Rose who can with magic most… Bring worshippers again about her… Forsaking other loves, who, thro’…
Healesville is a smiling lass, ‘Mid her encircling hills, Where down full many a mountain pa… The gold of wattle spills. She holds her hands out to the Sp…
If, some day, you should find me,… If you should stumble o’er my life… In some still thoroughfare or publ… And sadly say: ‘Alack, and had he lived, as like…
On one fine but fatal morning in t… Lo, a brawny Bloke set out to dig… First of men to put a puncture in… Was this early, neolithic, human m… Gladsomely the toiler hefted his u…
O, fellow Australians, listen, at… We must cease our contemptuous swe… And cursing and sneering at Bull’… For our attitude’s too overbearing… It is perfectly right we should ke…
‘I’ve seen so much uv dirt an’ gri… I’m mad to 'ave things clean. I’ve seen so much uv death,' ‘e sa… ’So many cobbers lyin’ dead You won’t know wot I mean;
Six o’clock. From the railway ya… The engine toots; careering hard, A milk-cart rattles by and stops; A magpie calls from the gum-tree t… The pub 'boots’, sweeping out the…
Where Feathertop frowns thro’ the… Where Buffalo broods on high, Dwells she, a lass of royal blood, And a sparkle lights her eye The clear, clean glint of the sun…
A city clerk was Henry Brown, Whose suburb knew nor tram nor tra… And ev’ry morn he walked to town. From nine till five, with busy bra… He labored in an office dim.
Spring is a flirt. Unexpectedly… Over the shoulder of some far blue… We glimpse the blue eyes of her, s… We hold out our hands to her, all… A bloom in her lips, for a moment…
You are growing convalescent As pain’s fingers are withdrawn; And you waken in a strange, white… Yet your thought is aught but plea… In the cold, grey winter dawn,
Gin you’re gangin’ doon the city Come next Sabbath afternoon, An’ you’ll catch a glimpse o’ Tar… An’ you’ll hear a skirlin’ tune; An’ you’ll see a crowd o’ laddies
Within the wooded avenue I stood, And I was proud. I looked upon the scene and found… For here, I vowed, Reigned Beauty rare. Sweet prais…
Mr Blenkinsop and I Are much concerned to learn That, somewhere in the further sky… A frightful heat-belt lurks on hig… Where torrid ethers burn.
‘My sort,’ she sez, 'don’t meet no… I can’t ‘elp ’earin’ part uv wot w… While I am sortin’ taters in the… They’ve ‘ad these secret confabs e… Rose came. ’Er an’ Doreen’s been…