#AustralianWriters
To-day I took old rhymes that I h… And read them through, each one un… When with a swift nostalgia was I… As with sad memories of some old f… Some happy, wayward man I used to…
Oh, I’ve got a lovely story that… It will make a gorgeous picture,… (Mind, it isn’t for the money, for… nd my attitude to Art is very pure… It is full of real heart-int’rest,…
(I’m not trying to make this thing… But, at the same time, A little interlude like this Is not amiss). We interviewed a Mayor and asked…
You are much too big to dandle, And I will not leave the candle. Go to sleep. You are growing naughty, rather, And I’ll have to speak to father.
Once a little sugar ant made up hi… To fare away far away, far away fr… He had eaten all his breakfast, an… To see what he should chance to se… Up and down a fern frond, round an…
What do you think I saw to-day wh… Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails danci… Bobbing here, and bowing there, go… And how I wished that you were th… But you were snug abed, my boy, bl…
Oh, foolish flapper, keen to be Considered cute and up-to-date, Sit down a while and hark to me, And I shall truly read your fate Not in a tea-cup, sweetling mine;
What do they dream about standing… In the windows facing the street? Eyes transfixed in a strange, far… Smiles so ineffably sweet; Lady and gentleman dummies clad
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…
Taste? Good taste? It’s been argu… But not many agree on it yet. Much that A may condone B may dee… So by whom is the standard set? Are you thinking of jazz of the in…
I’m a business man; and I can’t s… For this fluting and fussing and f… The song of my cousin may be subli… But I never have found it filling… So I run and I dig and I dig and…
Sadly sobbing, sadly sobbing, Rolls the restless wireless sea, Where the wireless waves go bobbin… Up and down so dolefully. And nothing there the gloom assail…
Matriarchy’s coming fast, Matriarchy’s here! Man’s supremacy at last Finds the end is near. Since the days of troglodytes,
Aha! Beware! I know your guilty p… I was a witness of that secret cri… One word! and all your fondest hop… I bide me time. I hold you in me grip, unhappy man…
What have we missed? Now he retu… We are left with but our blindness… But, concentrating on his spats in… Missed all the lure of that impres… Caricaturists, gazing at his feet,