Poetry Codex

Victorian

Henry Lawson

1867–1922

Henry Lawson (1867–1922) was an Australian poet and short-story writer, born near Grenfell, New South Wales.

His books include In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses (1896) and While the Billy Boils (1896); he is regarded as the voice of the bush and the working man.

Poems (117)

  1. Andy's gone with Cattle
  2. Out Back
  3. The Star of Australasia
  4. Middleton's Rouseabout
  5. The Vagabond
  6. The Sliprails and the Spur
  7. The Ports of the Open Sea
  8. The Three Kings
  9. The Outside Track
  10. Sydney-Side
  11. The Rovers
  12. Foreign Lands
  13. Mary Lemaine
  14. The Shakedown on the Floor
  15. Reedy River
  16. Old Stone Chimney
  17. Song of the Old Bullock-Driver
  18. The Lights of Cobb and Co.
  19. How the Land Was Won
  20. The Boss Over the Board
  21. When the Ladies Come to the Shearing Shed
  22. The Ballad of the Rouseabout
  23. Years After the War in Australia
  24. The Old Jimmy Woodser
  25. The Christ of the 'Never'
  26. The Cattle-Dog's Death
  27. The Song of the Darling River
  28. Rain in the Mountains
  29. A May Night on the Mountains
  30. The New Chum Jackaroo
  31. The Dons of Spain
  32. The Bursting of the Boom
  33. Antony Villa
  34. Second Class Wait Here
  35. The Ships That Won't Go Down
  36. The Men We Might Have Been
  37. The Way of the World
  38. The Battling Days
  39. Written Afterwards
  40. The Uncultured Rhymer to His Cultured Critics
  41. The Writer's Dream
  42. The Jolly Dead March
  43. My Literary Friend
  44. Mary Called Him 'Mister'
  45. Rejected
  46. O'Hara, J.P.
  47. Bill and Jim Fall out
  48. The Paroo
  49. The Green-Hand Rouseabout
  50. The Man from Waterloo
  51. Saint Peter
  52. The Stranger's Friend
  53. The God-Forgotten Election
  54. The Boss's Boots
  55. The Captain of the Push
  56. Billy's 'Square Affair'
  57. A Derry on a Cove
  58. Rise Ye! Rise Ye!
  59. The Ballad of Mabel Clare
  60. Constable M'Carty's Investigations
  61. At the Tug-Of-War
  62. Here's Luck!
  63. The Men Who Come Behind
  64. The Days When We Went Swimming
  65. The Old Bark School
  66. Trouble on the Selection
  67. The Professional Wanderer
  68. A Little Mistake
  69. A Study in the "Nood"
  70. A Word to Texas Jack
  71. The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase
  72. But What's the Use
  73. To an Old Mate
  74. In the Days When the World was Wide
  75. Faces in the Street
  76. The Roaring Days
  77. 'For'ard'
  78. The Drover's Sweetheart
  79. The Free-Selector's Daughter
  80. 'Sez You'
  81. Jack Dunn of Nevertire
  82. Trooper Campbell
  83. Past Carin'
  84. The Glass on the Bar
  85. The Shanty on the Rise
  86. Sweeney
  87. The Ballad of the Drover
  88. Taking His Chance
  89. When the 'Army' Prays for Watty
  90. The Wreck of the 'Derry Castle'
  91. Ben Duggan
  92. The Great Grey Plain
  93. The Song of Old Joe Swallow
  94. Corny Bill
  95. Cherry-Tree Inn
  96. Up the Country
  97. Knocked Up
  98. The Blue Mountains
  99. The City Bushman
  100. Eurunderee
  101. Mount Bukaroo
  102. The Fire at Ross's Farm
  103. The Teams
  104. Cameron's Heart
  105. The Shame of Going Back
  106. Since Then
  107. Peter Anderson and Co.
  108. When the Children Come Home
  109. Dan, the Wreck
  110. A Prouder Man Than You
  111. The Song and the Sigh
  112. The Cambaroora Star
  113. After All
  114. Marshall's Mate
  115. The Poets of the Tomb
  116. Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers
  117. The Ghost

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