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Henry Lawson Poems
- Andy's Gone With Cattle Our Andy's gone to battle now ...
- Faces In The Street They lie, the men who tell us in a loud...
- After All The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone...
- Knocked Up I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and ...
- A Prouder Man Than You If you fancy that your people came ...
- Out Back The old year went, and the new returned, in the ...
- A Song Of The Republic Sons of the South, awake! arise! ...
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.
Early Life
Henry Lawson was born in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales. His father was Niels Herzberg Larsen, a Norwegian-born miner who went to sea at 21, arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush. Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee, New South Wales) Niels and Louisa married on 7 July 1866; he was 32 and ... more »
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Andy's Gone With Cattle
Our Andy's gone to battle now
'Gainst Drought, the red marauder;
Our Andy's gone with cattle now
Across the Queensland border.
He's left us in dejection now;
Our hearts with him are roving.
It's dull on this selection now,
Since Andy went a-droving.
Who now shall wear the cheerful face
In times when things are slackest?
And who shall whistle round the place
When Fortune frowns her blackest?
Oh, who shall cheek the squatter now
When he comes round us snarling?
His tongue is growing hotter now
Since Andy ...
Joan, re terms
A 'sliprail' is used. In place of a gate at the entrance of a stock yard. More than one rail can be used. They are slipped out of the way to permit animals to enter or leave the enclosure. They are mentioned in Henry's famous poem, The Sliprail and the Spur.
'Select' was the process of acquiring a parcel of land. It was a process of encouraging closer settlement of farming land and was a sub-division of a squatter's land. Have a look at Henry's The Free Selector's Daughter.
Henry is indeed a genius. One of my favourites is Because of Her Father's Blood, also Booth's Drum 2
His poems are sprinkled all through my life and I find it a comfort to wander through the legacy of his work. What a cracker of a poet he was: ^)
he is the best poet and he is an inspiration
What cool poems, reminds me of the late Barry Crump
I love Henry Lawson's work. Here's a reply to Lynda on Lake Eliza - I think you might find it in The Rising Of The Court by the man himself, published in 1910 but I have never seen an actual copy, just reproduced parts. There is a reference ISBN: 1920897437. :)
Can anyone tell me what publication (if any) contains the poem about Lake Eliza? I see it's now on poemhunter, but we were once told it wasn't published anywhere. Not sure whether that was true or not.
I enjoy the poetry, but I wish there was a dictionary for terms that make no sense to me. (sliprails, select)
i really liked ur poem after all u did a really good job on it
where is the waterlilly? ..... i cant find the poem 'The Water-Lilly' does any one know where i could find it?