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The Captain of the Push by Henry Lawson
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush,
From a slum in Jones’s Alley sloped t..
The League of Nations by Henry Lawson
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore!
The Big Five met in the world’s light as ma..
The Song And The Sigh by Henry Lawson
The creek went down with a broken song,
’Neath the sheoaks high;
The waters carried the song alo..
The Poets Of The Tomb by Henry Lawson
The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead,
’Tis time the people passed a law..
The Wattle by Henry Lawson
I saw it in the days gone by,
When the dead girl lay at rest,
And the wattle and the native rose..
The Vagabond by Henry Lawson
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier
As we glide to the grand old sea --
But the s..
The Man Who Raised Charlestown by Henry Lawson
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George –
The parson from his pulpit and..
The Professional Wanderer by Henry Lawson
When you’ve knocked about the country—been away from home for years;
When the past, by distance so..
The Wander-Light by Henry Lawson
And they heard the tent-poles clatter,
And the fly in twain was torn –
’Tis the soiled rag of a..
The Shanty On The Rise by Henry Lawson
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West,
On a spur among the mountains st..
The Paroo by Henry Lawson
It was a week from Christmas-time,
As near as I remember,
And half a year since, in the rear,
..
The Dons of Spain by Henry Lawson
The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round,
Must wrestle the right..
The Flour Bin by Henry Lawson
By Lawson’s Hill, near Mudgee,
On old Eurunderee –
The place they called "New Pipeclay",
Where..
The Song of the Darling River by Henry Lawson
The skies are brass and the plains are bare,
Death and ruin are everywhere --
And all that is le..
The Song Of Old Joe Swallow by Henry Lawson
When I was up the country in the rough and early days,
I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett’s bul..
The Cambaroora Star by Henry Lawson
So you’re writing for a paper? Well, it’s nothing very new
To be writing yards of drivel for a tid..
Trooper Campbell by Henry Lawson
One day old Trooper Campbell
Rode out to Blackman’s Run,
His cap-peak and his sabre
Were glanc..
The Great Grey Plain by Henry Lawson
Out West, where the stars are brightest,
Where the scorching north wind blows,
And the bones of..
The Star of Australasia by Henry Lawson
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation’s slime;
Better a shred of a deep-..
The Grog-an'Grumble Steeplechase by Henry Lawson
’Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an’-Grumble
In the days before the bushma..
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