#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I’d like to be a barber, and learn… Calling out, ‘Next please! and po… All day I’d hear my scissors goin… I’d lather people’s faces, and the… While I shaved most carefully alo…
Mr Fitzmickle, the martinet, Rules with an iron rod His house and home; ‘neath its red… He struts like a little tin god. When Popper says stay, the family…
’Twas a long bush night; and the o… Shone out thro’ the open door To flood the knees of the great bu… And the scrub that grew before. And, as I dreamed where the firel…
I am last in the whole world wide, For my brothers all have gone, One by one have the martyrs died, That mankind might live on. High am I set in the market squar…
There’s a bleak, black world witho… And the rain falls fast; And the wind, with a whine and a s… Blows buffeting past To wail thro’ the tortured trees,
‘The flamin’ cows!' ‘e ses; ’e did… ’Twas ‘orrible the langwidge that… It made me blood run cold to ‘ear… An’ me that taken-back-like an’ co… W’ile them poor beasts 'e belted a…
I dance upon the wash-house roof, And fill my hair with straws, And from my fellows keep aloof. I’ll tell you why. because The glare in every eye I see,
Sweet, think how much the better i… If you thro’ life should thus pres… It really doesn’t matter much to m… But don’t you think you owe the wo… And don’t you think that thro’ som…
It wasn’t kid stakes. I 'ad no c… To act deceivin’, or to treat 'er… I’m old enough to know them games… Not with Doreen. Besides, deceit ain’t in me bag uv…
Once a year we lumber southward wi… Spell the bullocks in the township… What’s a bullocky to live for? D… And you’d not begrudge him yearly… While it lasts he asks no better.…
Oh, is there not one place on eart… Where man’s goodwill has gone from… Thro’ adolescence, with its rage, Into a kindly, mellow age A tolerant maturity
To gild refined gold, or to paint… Or seek by other means to overstre… As Shakespeare has it, is not mer… But ‘wasteful and ridiculous exces… Yes, men still try it, for no othe…
‘Arry an’ me is bits of sports; When the summer comes around We gits our sweaters an’ guns an’… An’ we seeks out 'untin’ ground. Tennis an’ 'ikin’ we reckons tame;
In olden days the Old White Hors… Stood brave against the sky; And ne’er a teamster shaped his co… To pass the good inn by. Far shone its lights o’ winter nig…
Now, you wouldn’t imagine, to look… That I was a racehorse once. I have done my mile in - let me se… No matter. I was no dunce. But you’d not believe me if I tol…