Poems

Goophic Phantasm Tho’ I own I have no adequate proofs Of this queer tale of the quaint old Goophs – The Goophs who dwelt in the […]

Green Walls I love all gum-trees well. But, best of all, I love the tough old warriors that tower About these lawns, to make a great […]

Grey Thrush Grey thrush was in the wattle tree, an’, “Oh, you pretty dear!” He says in his allurin’ way; an’ I remarks, “Hear, hear! That […]

Growing Up Little Tommy Tadpole began to weep and wail, For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail; And his mother didn’t know him as […]

Half a Man “I wash me ‘ands uv ‘im,” I tells ’em straight. “You women can do wot yeh dash well like. I leave this ‘arf […]

Hats I sing of the hat, of the human lid, The cadev, the tile, or whatever you please, The thing that we wear – or our […]

Heat-Wave Day after day, week after burning week, A ruthless sun has sucked the forest dry. Morn after anxious morn men’s glances seek The hills, hard-etched […]

Hist! Hist! . . . . . . Hark! The night is very dark, And we’ve to go a mile or so Across the Possum Park. […]

Hitched An’–wilt–yeh–take–this–woman–fer–to–be Yer–wedded–wife?– . . . O, strike me! Will I wot? Take ‘er? Doreen? ‘E stan’s there arstin’ me! As if ‘e thort per’aps I’d […]

Hopeful Hawkins Hawkins wasn’t in the swim at all in Dingo Flat, And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss; But, in justice, be […]