Up a dark and fetid alley, where the offal and the slime Of a brave and blusterous city met its misery and crime, In a hovel reeking pestilence, and noisome as the grave,...
Out of luck, mate? Have a liquor. Hang it, where's the use complaining? Take your fancy, I'm in funds now, I can stand the racket, Dan. Dump your bluey in the corner; camp here for the night, it's raining;...
My hut is built of stringy-bark, the window's calico, The furniture a gin-case, one bush-table, and a bunk; Thick as wheat on my selection does the towering timber grow,...
He was almost blind, and wasted With the wear of many years; He had laboured, and had tasted Bitter troubles, many cares; But his laugh was loud and ringing, And his flag was on the mast...
I said: 'I leave my bit of land, In khaki they've entwined me, I go abroad to lend a hand.' Said she: 'My love, I understand. I will be true, and though we part A thousand years you hold my heart",...
A letter came from Dick to-day; A greeting glad he sends to me. He tells of one more bloody fray, Of how with bomb and rifle they Have put their mark for all to see Across rock-ribbed Gallipoli. ...
The young lieutenant's face was grey. As came the day. The watchers saw it lifting white And ghostlike from the pool of night. His eyes were wide and strangely lit. Each thought in that unhallowed pit:...