Poems

Sweethearts IT’S gettin’ bits o’ posies, ’N’ feelin’ mighty good; A-thrillin’ ’cause she loves you, An’ wond’rin’ why she should; An’ stoppin’ sort o’ sudden, Because […]

The Dear Old Town When I first saw the dear old town Emus went walking up and down, Or in a doorway poked a head Asking […]

The First Thrush Though leaves have fallen long since, The wagtails flirt and flit, Glad in the morning sun; While, on the knotted quince, The dewdrops, […]

The Waradgery Tribe Harried we were, and spent, broken and falling, ere as the cranes we went, crying and calling. Summer shall see the bird backward […]

In The Land Where We Were Dreaming Fair were our nation’s visions, and as grand As ever floated out of fancy-land; Children we were in simple […]

Dixie’s Land I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Old times dar am not forgotten; Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land! In […]

The True Born Englishman (excerpt) … Thus from a mixture of all kinds began, That het’rogeneous thing, an Englishman: In eager rapes, and furious lust begot, […]

A Song for the Night O the Night, the Night, the solemn Night, When Earth is bound with her silent zone, And the spangled sky seems […]

Love In A Cottage A cottage small be mine, with porch Enwreathed with ivy green, And brightsome flowers with dew-filled bells, ‘Mid brown old wattles seen. […]

To His Wife O Pure of soul, and fond and deep of heart For those who darkened be, Lift up thy holy voice, at morn and […]