#AustralianWriters
When I am articled The Law decrees I shall devote my time To stating fees And learning about Actions
Emmie, Emmie Adams, With her insolent air, Tied a little bit of rag In her yellow hair. When Lena, wondering,
Miss Murphy has blue eyes and blu… Her machine’s opposite mine So I can stare At her pale face and shining blue-… I’m sure that other people think h…
Sometimes I am too tired To think of you. Today was such a day, But then I knew Today, for certain, you’d be weary…
Old memories waken old desires Infallibly. While we’re alive With eye or ear or sense at all, Sometimes, must love revive. But we’ll not think, when some str…
All day long We sew fine muslin up for you to w… Muslin that women wove for you els… A million strong. Just like flames,
I love to see Her looking up at me, Stretched on a bed In her pink dressing gown, Her arms above her head,
Sometimes I lose My power of loving for an hour or… Then I misuse My knowledge of friends’ secrets t… Them far more heartily than others…
Today I’d like to be a nun And go and say My rosary beneath the trees out th… In this shy sun
Once I thought my love was worth… If tears came. When the wound is mortal, now I k… Few tears flow.
If you have loved a brave story Tell it but rarely; And, with due faith in its glory, Render it barely. Then must the listener, hearing
When Gertie came in To work today She was much less weary And far more gay. We asked her the reason
What were the good of stars if non… But mariners, astronomers and such… The sun and moon and stars were ma… I know that much.
Oh, oh Rosalie, Oh, oh Rosalie, What would you have of me? Oh, oh Rosalie. I have kisses fine,
Those must be masts of ships the g… On through the little gap in the p… So far away that seeing almost fai… Those must be masts, the lovely ma… Stripped bare of sails.