FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Dan the Wreck

Tall, and stout, and solid-looking.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Jack Dun of Never tire

It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Ports of the Open Sea

Down here, where the ships loom large in.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Taking His Chance

They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

To Jim

I gaze upon my son once more.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

The Lights of Cobb & Co.

Fare lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Middleton's Rouseabout

Tall and freckled and sandy.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

One-Hundred-and-Three

With the frame of a man and the face of a boy.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Bertha

Wide, solemn eyes that question me.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

On the Night Train

Have you seen the bush by moonlight.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

The Shearing Shed

"The ladies are coming," the super says.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

The Glass on the Bar

Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Reedy River

Ten miles down Reedy River.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

A New John Bull

A tall, slight, English gentleman.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Ballad of the Rouseabout

A rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land or home.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Andy's Gone with the Cattle

Our Andy's gone with the cattle now.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Bill

He shall live to the end of this mad old world as he's lived since the world has begun.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Mallacoota Bar

We tried to get over the Bar today.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

When Your Pants Begin to Go

When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

The Teams

A cloud of dust on the long, white road.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

When the World was Wide

The world in narrow and the ways are short and our lives are dull and slow.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

The Light on the Wreck

Out there by the rocks, at the end of the bank.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

The Great Grey Plain

Out West, where the stars are brightest.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Scots of the Riverina

The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time.

Poetic Works of Henry Lawson

David McKee Wright

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Henry Lawson

Out Back

The old year went and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought.