English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Captain of the Push. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Captain of the Push As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones’s Alley sloped the Captain of the Push; And he scowled towards the North, and he scowled towards the South, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Sliprails and the Spur. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Sliprails and the Spur The colours of the setting sun Withdrew across the Western land— He raised the sliprails, one by one, And shot them home with trembling hand; Her brown hands clung—her face grew pale— Ah! quivering chin and eyes that brim!— […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. I’ll Tell You What You Wanderers. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) I’ll Tell You What You Wanderers I’ll tell you what you wanderers, who drift from town to town; Don’t look into a good girl’s eyes, until you’ve settled down. It’s hard to go away alone and leave old chums behind- It’s […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Knocked Up. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Knocked Up I’m lyin’ on the barren ground that’s baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or heart is most wore out; I’ve got no spirits left to rise and smooth me achin’ brow — […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Shadows Before. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Shadows Before ”Like clouds o’er the South are the nations who reign On fair islands that we would command; But clouds that are darker and denser than these Have sailed from an Isle in the Northern Seas And rest […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Lights of Cobb & Co.. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Lights of Cobb & Co. Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; The mail-coach looming darkly by light on moon and star; The […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Fall in, My Men, Fall in. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Fall in, My Men, Fall in The short hour’s halt is ended, The red gone from the west, The broken wheel is mended, And the dead men laid to rest. Three days have we retreated The brave old Curse-and-Grin […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Wreck of the `Derry Castle’. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Wreck of the `Derry Castle’ Day of ending for beginnings! Ocean hath another innings, Ocean hath another score; And the surges sing his winnings, And the surges shout his winnings, And the surges shriek his winnings, All […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Australian Engineers. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Australian Engineers Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things over and over again. For the sake of the sleek importer we slave with the pick and […]
English Poetry. Andrew Marvell. On a Drop of Dew. Эндрю Марвелл.
Andrew Marvell (Эндрю Марвелл) On a Drop of Dew See how the Orient Dew, Shed from the Bosom of the Morn Into the blowing Roses, Yet careless of its Mansion new; For the clear Region where ’twas born Round in its self incloses: And in its little Globes […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. To Be Amused. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) To Be Amused You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling mad, Australia races to her doom. You bid me sing the light and fair, The […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The City Bushman. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The City Bushman It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled like a gent; And you curse the trams and buses and the turmoil and the push, Though […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Australia’s Peril. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Australia’s Peril We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in and the wrong that we have seen done. Let the bride of frivolous fashion, and of ease, be ashamed and dumb, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. When the Children Come Home. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) When the Children Come Home On a lonely selection far out in the West An old woman works all the day without rest, And she croons, as she toils ’neath the sky’s glassy dome, `Sure I’ll keep the ould place […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Drover’s Sweetheart. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Drover’s Sweetheart An hour before the sun goes down Behind the ragged boughs, I go across the little run And bring the dusty cows; And once I used to sit and rest Beneath the fading dome, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Loveable Characters. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Loveable Characters I long for the streets but the Lord knoweth best, For there I am never a saint; There are lovable characters out in the West, With humour heroic and quaint; And, be it Up Country, or […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Past Carin’. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Past Carin’ Now up and down the siding brown The great black crows are flyin’, And down below the spur, I know, Another `milker’s’ dyin’; The crops have withered from the ground, The tank’s clay bed is glarin’, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. A Song of the Republic. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) A Song of the Republic Sons of the South, awake! arise! Sons of the South, and do. Banish from under your bonny skies Those old-world errors and wrongs and lies. Making a hell in a Paradise That belongs […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Every Man Should Have a Rifle. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Every Man Should Have a Rifle So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb, Seeing visions ”over yonder” of the war I know must come. In the corner – not a vision – but a sign […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Old Jimmy Woodser. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Old Jimmy Woodser The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar Unwelcomed, unnoticed, unknown, Too old and too odd to be drunk with, by far; So he glides to the end where the lunch baskets are And they […]
English Poetry. Andrew Marvell. Young Love. Эндрю Марвелл.
Andrew Marvell (Эндрю Марвелл) Young Love Come little Infant, Love me now, While thine unsuspected years Clear thine aged Fathers brow From cold Jealousie and Fears. Pretty surely ’twere to see By young Love old Time beguil’d: While our Sportings are as free As the Nurses with […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Bush Girl. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Bush Girl So you rode from the range where your brothers “select,” Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn— You rode slowly at first, lest her heart should suspect That you were glad to be […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Eureka. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Eureka Roll up, Eureka’s heroes, on that grand Old Rush afar, For Lalor’s gone to join you in the big camp where you are; Roll up and give him welcome such as only diggers can, For well he battled for the rights of […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Heart of Australia. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Heart of Australia When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum, Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote of a war to come: And I pictured Australians fighting as their fathers fought of old For […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Blue Mountains. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Blue Mountains Above the ashes straight and tall, Through ferns with moisture dripping, I climb beneath the sandstone wall, My feet on mosses slipping. Like ramparts round the valley’s edge The tinted cliffs are standing, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Wide Spaces. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Wide Spaces When the man I was denounces all the things that I was not, When the true souls stand like granite, while the souls of liars not – When the quids I gave are counted, and the trays I cadged […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Glass on the Bar. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Glass on the Bar Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn, And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; They’d only returned from a trip to the North, And, eager to greet them, the landlord […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Waratah and Wattle. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Waratah and Wattle Though poor and in trouble I wander alone, With rebel cockade in my hat, Though friends may desert me, and kindred disown, My country will never do that! You may sing of the Shamrock, the Thistle, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Up the Country. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Up the Country I am back from up the country — very sorry that I went — Seeking for the Southern poets’ land whereon to pitch my tent; I have lost a lot of idols, which were broken on the track, […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Jack Dunn of Nevertire. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Jack Dunn of Nevertire It chanced upon the very day we’d got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o’-Sunday Run; He had a round and jolly face, and he was sleek and stout, He drove right […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Uncle Harry. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Uncle Harry Oh, never let on to your own true love That ever you drank a drop; That ever you played in a two-up school Or slept in a sly-grog shop; That ever a bad girl nursed you round […]
English Poetry. Andrew Marvell. The Garden. Эндрю Марвелл.
Andrew Marvell (Эндрю Марвелл) The Garden How vainly men themselves amaze To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes; And their uncessant Labours see Crown’d from some single Herb or Tree, Whose short and narrow verged Shade Does prudently their Toyles upbraid; While all Flow’rs and all Trees […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. For Australia. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) For Australia Now, with the wars of the world begun, they’ll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run to the arms of democracy, Now, when our blathering fools are scared, and the years have proved us right […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Wide Lies Australia. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Wide Lies Australia Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity – all states in one. Never has Custom nor Tyranny bound her – Never was conquest so peacefully won. Fair lies Australia! with all […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. On the Night Train. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) On the Night Train Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by? Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry; Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky? […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Free-Selector’s Daughter. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Free-Selector’s Daughter I met her on the Lachlan Side — A darling girl I thought her, And ere I left I swore I’d win The free-selector’s daughter. I milked her father’s cows a month, I brought […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. From the Bush. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) From the Bush The Channel fog has lifted – And see where we have come! Round all the world we’ve drifted, A hundred years from ”home”. The fields our parents longed for – Ah! we shall ne’er know […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. The Tragedy. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) The Tragedy Oh, I never felt so wretched, and things never looked so blue Since the days I gulped the physic that my Granny used to brew; For a friend in whom I trusted, entering my room last night, Stole […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Out Back. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Out Back The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the shearer earned, and the sheds were all cut out; The publican’s words were short and few, and […]
English Poetry. Henry Lawson. Faces in the Street. Генри Лоусон.
Henry Lawson (Генри Лоусон) Faces in the Street They lie, the men who tell us for reasons of their own That want is here a stranger, and that misery’s unknown; For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet My window-sill is level with the faces in […]