The Poetry Corner

Henry Lawson

Poems

'GS' or the Fourth Cook
1891
39
A Backward Glance
A Bush Girl
A Dan Yell
A Derry On A Cove
A Fantasy Of War
A Little Mistake
A Mate Can Do No Wrong
A May Night On The Mountains
A Mixed Battle Song
A New John Bull
A Prouder Man Than You
A Slight Misunderstanding At The Jasper Gate
A Song For The Sydney Poor or, The Australian Marseillaise
A Song Of Brave Men
A Song Of The Republic
A Study In The 'Nood'
A Voice From The City
A Word From The Bards
A Word To Texas Jack
Above Crows Nest - Sydney
Above Eurunderee
Above Lavender Bay
After All
An Interlude Of Peace - The Fairy West
An Interlude of Peace. The Fairy West
And The Bairns Will Come
And What Have You To Say
Andy's Gone With Cattle
Andy's Return
Antony Villa
As far As Your Rifles Cover
As Good As New
As Ireland Wore The Green
As It Was In The Beginning
At The Beating Of A Drum
At The Tug-0-War
Australia's Peril (The Warning)
Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers
Australian Engineers
Ballad Of The Drover
Barta
Beaten Back
Before We Were Married
Ben Boyd's Tower
Ben Duggan
Bill And Jim Fall Out
Billy Of Queensland
Billys 'Square Affair'
Black Bonnet
Bobbies Statue
Bonnie New South Wales
Booth's Drum
Borderland
Bound For The Lord-Knows-Where
Bourke
Break O Day
Brightens Sister-In-Law or, The Carriers Story
Broken Axletree
Brother, Youll Take My Hand
Bush Hay
But What's The Use
By Hut, Homestead And Shearing Shed,
Cameron's Heart
Captain Von Esson Of The Sebastopol
Cherry-Tree Inn
Cinderella
Clinging Back
Constable MCartys Investigations
Coomera
Corny Bill
Cromwell
Cypher Seven "07"
Dan Wasnt Thrown From His Horse
Dan, The Wreck
Dawgs Of War
Days When We Went Swimming
Divorced
Do You Think That I Do Not Know?
Down The River
Eureka
Eurunderee
Every Man Should Have A Rifle
Everyone's Friend
Faces In The Street
Fall In, My Men, Fall In
Fighting Hard
Flag Of The Southern Cross
For All the Land to See (A Song Of The Tools)
For Australia
For He Was A Jolly Good Fellow
For'ard
Foreign Lands
Freedom On The Wallaby
Freedom on the Wallaby
From The Bush
From The Lanes Of Loo Or, The Cab Lamps
Genoa
Gipsy Too
Give Yourself A Show (New Years Eve)
Golden Gully
Grace Jennings Carmicheal
Grey Wolves Grey
Hannah Thomburn
He Had So Much Work To Do
He Mourned His Master
Heed Not!
Here Died
Here's Luck
Hes Gone To England For A Wife
How The Land Was Won
Hymn Of The Reformers
I'd Back Agen The World
I'll Tell You What You Wanderers
In Answer To "Banjo," And Otherwise. (The City Bushman)
In Possum Land
In The Day's When We Are Dead
In The Days When The World Was Wide
In The Height Of Fashion
In The Storm That Is To Come
In The Street
Interlude - A Dirge Of Joy
Interlude - Callaghan's Hotel
Interlude - Next Door
Interlude. A Dirge of Joy
Interlude. Callaghans Hotel
Interlude. Next Door
Ireland Shall Rebel
Im An Older Man Than You
Jack Cornstalk
Jack Dunn Of Nevertire
Jack Robertson
John Cornstalk
Johnsons Wonder
Josephs Dreams And Reubens Brethren (A Recital In Six Chapters)
Keeping His First Wife Now
Knocked Up
Knockin' Around
Lachlan Side
Lake Eliza
Laughing And Sneering
Lets Be Fools To-Night or, The Three Partners
Lily
MaCleay Street And Red Rock Lane
Marshall's Mate
Mary Called Him 'Mister'
Mary Lemaine
Middleton's Rouseabout
Mostly Slavonic
Mount Bukaroo
My Army, O, My Army!
My Father-In-Law And I
My Land And I
My Literary Friend
My Wifes Second Husband
Nemesis
Never, Never Land
New Life, New Love
Nineteen Nine
O Cupid, Cupid; Get Your Bow!
O'Hara, J.P.
Old North Sydney
Old Stone Chimney
Old Tunes
On The March
On The Night Train
On The Summit Of Mount Clarence
On The Wallaby
One Hundred And Three
One-Man-One-Vote
Only A Sod
Our Mistress And Our Queen
Out On The Roofs Of Hell
Outback
Outside
Over The Ranges And Into The West
Past Carin'
Peddling Round The World
Peter Anderson And Co.
Pigeon Toes
Possum - A Lay Of Newchumland
Poverty
Queen Hilda Of Virland
Rain In The Mountains
Reedy River
Rejected
Republican Pioneers
Riding Round The Lines
Rise Ye! Rise Ye!
Robbie's Statue
Ruth
Sacred To The Memory Of Unknown
Said Grenfell To My Spirit
Said The Kaiser To The Spy
Saint Peter
Say Goodbye When Your Chum Is Married
Scots Of The Riverina
Seaweed, Tussock And Fern
Second Class Wait Here
Send Round The Hat
Sez You
Shadows Before
Shearers
Sheoaks That Sigh When The Wind Is Still
Since The Cities Are The Cities
Since Then
Skaal
Skeleton Flat
Somewhere Up In Queensland
Song Of The Dardanelles
Song Of The Old Bullock-Driver
Stand by the Engines
Success
Sweeney
Sweethearts Wait On Every Shore
Sydney Town In 91
Sydney-Side
Take It Fightin
Taking His Chance
Tambaroora Jim
That Great Waiting Silence
That There Dog O' Mine
The 'Soldier Birds'
The Afterglow
The Alleys
The Army Of The Rear
The Australian Marseillaise or, A Song For The Sydney Poor
The Author's Farewell To The Bushmen
The Babies Of Walloon
The Ballad Of Mabel Clare
The Ballad Of The Drover
The Ballad Of The Elder Son
The Ballad Of The Rousabout
The Bard Of Furthest Out
The Bards Who Lived At Manly
The Battling Days
The Beauty And The Dude
The Bill Of The Ages
The Black Bordered Letter
The Black Tracker or, Why He Lost The Track
The Blue Mountains
The Bonny Port Of Sydney
The Boss Over The Board
The Boss's Boots
The Brass Well
The Briny Grave
The Bulletin Hotel
The Bursting Of The Boom
The Bush Beyond The Range
The Bush Fire
The Bush Girl
The Cab Lamps Or, From The Lanes Of Loo
The Cambaroora Star
The Captain Of The Push
The Captains
The Carriers Story or, Brightens Sister-In-Law
The Cattle-Dog's Death
The Christ Of The 'Never'
The City Bushman
The Cliffs
The Cockney Soul
The Cross Roads
The Crucifixion
The Day Before I Die
The Days When We went Swimming
The Distant Drum
The Dons Of Spain
The Drover's Sweetheart
The Drovers
The Drums Of Battersea
The Drunkard's Vision
The Empty Glass
The Federal City
The Fight At Eureka Stockade
The Fire At Ross's Farm
The Firing-Line
The Flour Bin
The Foreign Drunk
The Free Selector's Daughter
The Friends Of The Fallen fortunes
The Gathering Of The Brown-Eyed
The Gentlemen Of Dickens
The Ghost
The Ghost At The Second Bridge
The Glass On The Bar
The God-Forgotten Election
The Good Old Concertina
The Good Samaritan
The Great Grey Plain
The Green-Hand Rouseabout
The Grog-an'Grumble Steeplechase
The Heart Of Australia
The Heart Of The Swag
The Horse And Cart Ferry
The Hymn Of The Socialists
The Imported Servant
The Iron Wedding Rings
The Jolly Dead March
The King
The King And Queen And I
The King Of Our Republic
The Labour Agitator
The Lady Of The Motor Car
The Last Review
The Leader And The Bad Girl
The League Of Nations
The Legend Of Cooee Gully
The Legend Of Mammon Castle
The Light On The Wreck
The Lights Of Cobb & Co
The Lily And The Bee
The Lily Of St Leonards
The Little Czar
The Little Native Rose
The Little Slit In The Tail
The Loveable Characters
The Man From Waterloo
The Man Who Raised Charlestown
The March Of Ivan
The Memories They Bring
The Men We Might Have Been
The Men Who Come Behind
The Men Who Live It Down
The Men Who Made Australia
The Men Who Made Bad Matches
The Men Who Sleep With Danger
The Men Who Stuck To Me
The Motor Car
The Mountain Splitter
The Muscovy Duck
The Never-Never Country
The New Chum Jackeroo
The Old Bark School
The Old Jimmy Woodser
The Old Mile-Tree
The Old Stockman's Lament
The Old, Old Story And The New Order
The Outside Track
The Paroo River
The Passing Of Scotty
The Patriotic League
The Patteran
The Pavement Stones (A Song Of The Unemployed)
The Peace Maker
The Poets Of The Tomb
The Port O'Call
The Ports Of The Open Sea
The Pride That Comes After
The Prime Of Life
The Professional Wanderer
The Rhyme Of The Three Greybeards
The Roaring Days
The Rose
The Route March
The Rovers
The Rush To London
The Scamps
The Scots
The Secret Whisky Cure
The Separated Women
The Separation
The Shakedown On The Floor
The Shame Of Going Back
The Shanty On The Rise
The Shearers
The Shearers Dream
The Shearing Shed
The Ships That Won't Go Down
The Skyline Riders
The Sleeping Beauty
The Sliprails And The Spur
The Song And The Sigh
The Song Of A Prison
The Song Of Australia
The Song Of Old Joe Swallow
The Song Of The Darling River
The Song Of The Waste-Paper Basket
The Sorrows Of A Simple Bard
The Soul Of A Poet
The Southerly Buster
The Spirits For Good
The Spirits Of Our Fathers
The Squatter, Three Cornstalks, And The Well
The Squatters Daughter
The Star Of Australasia
The Statue Of Our Queen
The Stranded Ship (The Vincennes)
The Stranger's Friend
The Stringy-Bark Tree
The Swagman And His Mate
The Teams
The Things We Dare Not Tell
The Things We Dare Not Tell
The Three Kings
The Three Partners or, Lets Be Fools To-Night
The Three Quiet Gentlemen
The Tracks That Lie By India
The Tragedy
The Triumph Of The People
The Two Samaritans And The Tramp
The Uncultured Rhymer To His Cultured Critics
The Unknown God
The Vagabond
The Vanguard
The Voice From Over Yonder
The Vote Of Thanks Debate
The Wander-Light
The Wantaritencant
The Watch On The Kerb
The Water
The Water Lily
The Wattle
The Way Of The World
The Women Of The Town
The World Is Full Of Kindness
The Wreck Of The `Derry Castle'
The Writer's Dream
The Seabolts Volunteers
Those Foreign Engineers
Till All the Bad Things Came Untrue
To A Pair Of Blucher Boots
To An Old Mate
To Be Amused
To Hannah
To Jack
To Jim
To My friends
To Show What A Man Can Do
To The Irish Delegates
To Tom Bracken
To Victor Daly
To Doc Wylie (An Eccentric Bush Doctor)
To-Morrow
Trooper Campbell
Trouble On The Selection
Uncle Harry
Unknown
Up The Country
Victor
Victory
Waratah And Wattle
Watching The Crows
What Have We All Forgotten?
When Hopes Ran High
When I Was King
When the Bear Comes Back Again
When The Children Come Home
When The Duke Of Clarence Died
When The Ladies Come To The Shearing Shed
When The `Army' Prays For Watty
When Your Pants Begin To Go
When Your Sins Come Home To Roost
When Youre Bad In Your Inside
Wholl Wear The Beaten Colours?
Whos Dot Pulleteen?
Why He Lost The Track or, The Black Tracker
Wide Lies Australia
Wide Spaces
Will Yer Write It Down For Me?
William Street
With Dickens
Write By Return
Written Afterwards
Written Out
Years After The War In Australia
Young Kings And Old