The poetry of Henry Lawson, arranged by year 1885 - 1887 - 1888 - 1889 - 1890 - 1891 - 1892 - 1893 - 1894 - 1895 - 1896 - 1897 - 1898 - 1899 - 1900 - 1901 - 1902 - 1903 - 1904 - 1905 - 1906 - 1907 - 1908 - 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1918 - 1919 - 1920 - 1921 - 1922 1885 "Shadows Before" 1887 The Distant Drum "Flag of the Southern Cross" Golden Gully The Hymn of the Socialists The Legend of Cooee Gully Only a Sod A Song of the Republic Statue of Robert Burns The Wreck of the "Derry Castle" 1888 Andy's Gone With Cattle Andy's Return The Army of the Rear Beaten Back The Blue Mountains Faces in the Street Lachlan Side "Let's Be Fools Tonight" A May Night on the Mountains Shearers' Song The Watch on the Kerb 1889 The Ballad of the Drover Brighten's Sister-in-Law The Cattle-Dog's Death Cinderella Eureka The Ghost He's Gone to England for a Wife Laughing and Sneering The Legend of Mammon Castle The Mountain Splitter Mount Bukaroo O Cupid, Cupid; Get Your Bow! Old Stone Chimney Rain in the Mountains The Roaring Days The "Seabolt's" Volunteers The Sleeping Beauty The Song and the Sigh The Song of the Waste-Paper Basket The Squatter's Daughter The Teams To the Irish Delegates 1890 An Australian Advertisement The Australian Marseillaise The Black Tracker Cherry-Tree Inn The Fight at Eureka Stockade The Fire at Ross's Farm The Glass on the Bar He Mourned His Master Ireland Shall Rebel John Cornstalk Lily Middleton's Rouseabout On the Summit of Mount Clarence Over the Ranges and Into the West The Pavement Stones "Possum" Skeleton Flat The Song of Old Joe Swallow The Squatter, Three Cornstalks, and the Well Stand by the Engines The Statue of Our Queen Sweethearts Wait on Every Shore To a Pair of Blucher Boots To "Doc" Wylie Trouble on the Selection The Two Samaritans and the Tramp The Water Lily When the Children Come Home Who's Dot Pulleteen? A Word to Texas Jack 1891 As Ireland Wore the Green At The Tug-of-War The Babies of Walloon The Ballad of Mabel Clare The Beauty and the Dude Ben Duggan The Cambaroora Star Cameron's Heart Coomera Corny Bill ["Cribs to be Cracked!"] Dan Wasn't Thrown From His Horse The Drover's Sweetheart Eurunderee [1891] Freedom on the Wallaby The Free-Selector's Daughter The Ghost at the Second Bridge The God-Forgotten Election The Good Old Concertina [Harry Stephens] The Helpless Mothers "Jack Robertson" Kangaroo Power The Labour Agitator Lay Your Ears Back and Fight ["Let the Government Determine..."] My Literary Friend Mary Lemaine The Old Man's Welcome One-Man-One-Vote On the Wallaby Otherside The Patriotic League The Rebel The Shame of Going Back The Shanty on the Rise Song of the Old Bullock-Driver Spread the Truth! Sydney Town in '91 The Triumph of the People Trooper Campbell The Vote of Thanks Debate Watching the Crows The Way I Treated Father When the Irish Flag Went By 1892 Billy's "Square Affair" The Captain of the Push Charley Lilley The City Bushman Constable M'Carty's Investigations 'Cross the Border Cruise of the "Crow" A Derry on a Cove The English Queen The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase The House of Fossils Jack Dunn of Nevertire The Lay-'Em-Out Brigade The Love of a "God" Mary Called Him "Mister" May Day in Europe Modern Parasites More Echoes from the Old Museum Ned's Delicate Way The Old Rebel Flag in the Rear Our Children's Land The Poets of the Tomb The Press Gang A Prouder Man Than You Rise Ye! Rise Ye! A Song of Southern Writers The Southern Scout A Study in the "Nood" Taking His Chance "Tambaroora Jim" There's a Bunk in the Humpy Up the Country "Wales the First" When the Bush Begins to Speak When the Duke of Clarence Died When Your Pants Begin to Go You'll Triumph Not in This Land 1893 "All Unyun Men" Antony Villa Arthur Desmond "Coralisle" The Emigration to New Zealand The English Ne'er-do-well "For'ard" The Great Grey Plain Here's Luck! Knocked Up Lake Eliza The Morning of New Zealand The Other Gum Out Back The Paroo Rejected "Ryan's Crossing" Saint Peter "Sez You" Something Better Sweeney Tally Town The Waving of the Red The Western Stars When the "Army" Prays for Watty 1894 Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers Beautiful Maoriland Charley Turner "The Home of the Gods" In the Days When the World Was Wide In the Street I'll Tell You What, You Wanderers The Latter End of Spring Marshall's Mate Martin Farrell O'Hara, J.P. Old Joe Swallow Republican Pioneers Rewi to Grey To Tom Bracken The Windy Hills o' Wellington 1895 But What's The Use Dan, the Wreck The Fate of the Fat Man's Son Peter Anderson and Co. Since Then The Star of Australasia To an Old Mate To the "Advanced Idealist" The Vagabond Years After the War in Australia 1896 After All Bill and Jim Fall Out The Bursting of the Boom The Man from Waterloo The Men Who Come Behind The New Chum Jackaroo The Outside Track Reedy River The Swagman and His Mate The Way of the World When You're Bad in Your Inside Write by Return 1897 A Backward Glance The Battling Days The Boss Over the Board The Boss's Boots The Drovers Foreign Lands The Green-Hand Rouseabout The Jolly Dead March The Light on the Wreck The Lights of Cobb and Co. A Little Mistake The Men We Might Have Been The Old Bark School The Old Mile-Tree Old Tunes The Ports of the Open Sea Poverty The Professional Wanderer The Three Kings [1897] The Uncultured Rhymer to His Cultured Critics "The Voice from Over Yonder" When the Ladies Come to the Shearing-Shed Written Afterwards The Writer's Dream 1898 The Christ of the "Never" The Dons of Spain "Knocking Around" Out on the Roofs of Hell The Ships That Won't Go Down Sydney-Side 1899 Andy Page's Rival The Babies in the Bush The Ballad of the Rouseabout The Blessings of War The Days When We Went Swimming The Flag of Our Destinies From the Strand to the Never The Green Tide How the Land Was Won Jack Cornstalk [1899] The Man Ahead The Old Jimmy Woodser Our Fighters Past Carin' Pigeon Toes The Rovers Second Class Wait Here The Shakedown on the Floor The Sliprails and the Spur The Song of the Darling River The Stranger's Friend 'Twas a Land Set Apart 1900 The Author's Farewell to the Bushmen The Ballad of the Black-Sheep Ballad of the Cornstalk From the Bush The Rush to London 1901 As Far As Your Rifles Cover The Bulletin Hotel The Bush Girl "G.S." Heed Not Jack Cornstalk [1901] The Men Who Made Australia The Never-Never Country The Shearers The Things We Dare Not Tell "Unknown" 1902 Barta Bourke The Drums of Battersea Gipsy Too Ruth Say Good-bye When Your Chum is Married The Separation Shearer's Dream The Wander-Light When Bertha Comes to Tea Will Yer Write It Down for Me? 1903 The Alleys The Brass Well Brother, You'll Take My Hand The Cliffs Drought-Stricken The Drums of Ages Exit The Leader and the Bad Girl The Men Who Live It Down My Land and I New Life, New Love The Passing of Scotty The Pride That Comes After They Can Only Drag You Down A Voice from the City 1904 The Afterglow Australian Engineers And the Bairns Will Come The Ballad of the Elder Son Break o' Day The Crucifixion The Firing-Line Genoa The Good Samaritan The Heart of Australia In the Storm That Is To Come Joseph's Dreams and Reuben's Brethren The Last Review The Little Czar Nemesis The Men Who Went Away The Ministry of Men Old North Sydney On the March Riding Round the Lines Skaal The Secret Whisky Cure Those Foreign Engineers To Hannah To Jim When I Was King When the Bear Comes Back Again With Dickens The Women of the Town Written Out [1904] 1905 And What Have You to Say? As Good As New Australia's Peril The Bill of the Ages The Bonny Port of Sydney "Broken Axletree" The Bush Fire The Cliques of the Who'll-Get-In The Cross-roads The Drunkard's Vision The Federal City For Australia Give Yourself a Show Hannah Thomburn The Heart of the Swag The Individualist In Possum Land The King and Queen and I The Memories They Bring The Men Who Stuck to Me The Muscovy Duck The Pink Carnation Robbie's Statue The Scamps The Soul of a Poet The Spirits for Good The Stringy-bark Tree To Jack To-morrow To Show What a Man Can Do The Tracks That Lie by India The Two Poets The Vanguard [1905] Waratah and Wattle "The Water" 1906 "39" Above Crow's Nest (Sydney) A Banquet of Stinking Fish The Bard of Furthest Out The Bards Who Lived at Manly Before We Were Married "Bound for the Lord-Knows-Where" The Bush Beyond the Range "Bush Hay" "The Damanreadabook" Divorced The Empty Glass For All the Land to See Gold in Their Teeth The Horseman on the Skyline In the Height of Fashion Johnson's Wonder Keeping His First Wife Now My Father-in-Law and I ["My Pretty Young Gent"] My Wife's Second Husband The Newer Things at Home The Old Ring-Master Our Mistress and Our Queen The Peace Maker The Prime of Life Sea Children of the Sea Sheoaks That Sigh When the Wind Is Still Since the Cities Are the Cities The Spirits of Our Fathers The Stranded Ship That Great Waiting Silence To Be Amused To Victor Daley "Victor" The Wantaritencant A Word from the Bards 1907 The Cab Lamps Clinging Back The Country Girl Cypher Seven A Dan Yell The Day Before I Die Every Man Should Have a Rifle The First Dingo Five Years Later For He Was a Jolly Good Fellow The Gathering of the Brown-Eyed The Greying of My Hair His Toast and Mine I'm An Older Man Than You The Lily of St Leonards Macleay Street and Red Rock Lane The Motor Car The Secessionist The Separated Women The Song of the Doodle Doos The Sorrows of a Simple Bard Take It Fightin' Till all the Bad Things Came Untrue What Have We All Forgotten? When Your Sins Come Home to Roost Who'll Wear the Beaten Colours? 1908 As It Is in the Days of Now The Bard's Triumph Because My Father's One Because of Her Father's Blood Exceeding Small The Friends of Fallen Fortunes "He Isn't Long for This World" In the Days When We Are Dead The Knight of the Garden Spade The Old Pens and the New The Old Squire One Hundred and Three The Port o' Call The "Problems" Sayonara The Sign of the Old Black Eye The Skyline Riders The Song of Australia A Song of General Sick and Tiredness The Song of the Back to Front There Was a Song Without the Heart Behind It 1909 Billy of Queensland The Black Bordered Letter The Briny Grave A Bush Girl Captain Von Esson of the "Sebastopol" The Dog in the Moon Down The River "Fall In, My Men, Fall In" The Female Ward The Gentlemen of Dickens Grace Jennings Carmichael "Here Died" The Horse and Cart Ferry I'd Back Agen the World The Imported Servant The Iron Wedding Rings The Lily and the Bee The Little Slit in the Tail The Man Who Raised Charlestown Nineteen Nine The Poet's Kiss The Scots The "Soldier Birds" Somewhere Up in Queensland The Song of a Prison The Song of What Do You Think The Southerly Bluster Sticking to Bill The Story of Marr Success When There's Trouble on Your Mind PoemToBeDone The Great Fight PoemToBeDone The Duty of Australians PoemToBeDone The Land of Living Lies PoemToBeDone The Land of "Missing Friends" PoemToBeDone A Regret PoemToBeDone For Being Alive PoemToBeDone Deprived of Liberty PoemToBeDone Legal Cant PoemToBeDone Bound Over PoemToBeDone Biddy O'Dowd PoemToBeDone The North Shore Business Girl PoemToBeDone Her Vagabond Friend PoemToBeDone Charity PoemToBeDone Barents PoemToBeDone Exploring PoemToBeDone The Something That Never Comes 1910 To My Friends "Everyone's Friend" PoemToBeDone The Auld Shop & the New PoemToBeDone Owed (and Paid) to a Bottle The Old, Old Story and the New Order PoemToBeDone Written Out [1910] Do They Think That I Do Not Know? The Wattle The Foreign Drunk PoemToBeDone Gypsy Blood When Hopes Ran High The Patteran PoemToBeDone The Song of Broken English PoemToBeDone The Song of Many The Men Who Made Bad Matches "Outside" Gettin' Back The Bar Did You See Us Sailing Past? Mallacoota Bar Ben Boyd's Tower To a Fellow-Bard Camping Out Bonnie New South Wales Mallacoota West Seaweed, Tussock, and Fern The King [1910] PoemToBeDone When Kitchener Shed Tears William Street Above Lavender Bay The World Is Full of Kindness PoemToBeDone If They Win To-night PoemToBeDone Wowserland PoemToBeDone The Wowsers are Down and Out As It Was in the Beginning Cromwell The King of our Republic At the Beating of a Drum The Rose The Little Native Rose He Had So Much Work to Do PoemToBeDone Kiss in the Ring PoemToBeDone When This New Bar is Old Unwritten Books PoemToBeDone Out of Fashion PoemToBeDone It is Not There PoemToBeDone ["To E.J. Brady"] PoemToBeDone A Refutation PoemToBeDone To the Land I Love PoemToBeDone Waratah, My Mountain Queen PoemToBeDone Wine from the Riverine PoemToBeDone Bushman Sailor Native Fruit PoemToBeDone The Unknown Flower PoemToBeDone The Bard Gets Massaged PoemToBeDone Knighthood PoemToBeDone After the Battle When All the World Is New PoemToBeDone Shades PoemToBeDone The Spirit of Sydney Queen Hilda of Virland 1911 The Fairy West PoemToBeDone A Nocturne PoemToBeDone The Lost Punch PoemToBeDone Mudgee Town PoemToBeDone The Road to St Helena PoemToBeDone The Old Head Nurse and the Young Marchioness Australia's Forgotten Flag PoemToBeDone The Universal Brothers PoemToBeDone The Song of the Heathen The King [1911] PoemToBeDone England PoemToBeDone The Reformation of the Eldest Son PoemToBeDone Donald Macdonell Said Grenfell to My Spirit PoemToBeDone What's in a Name? PoemToBeDone Recollections PoemToBeDone A Riddle in Remorse PoemToBeDone The Drunken Leader PoemToBeDone What Manner of Man Is He? PoemToBeDone Mr Printer's Error PoemToBeDone The Pub That Lost Its Licence 1912 Red and Gold PoemToBeDone Jim-Jam Land PoemToBeDone The Old Push and the New PoemToBeDone The Studio PoemToBeDone Men of Hell and London East Too Old to Rat A Song of Brave Men The Men Who Sleep With Danger PoemToBeDone Helsingfors PoemToBeDone Down and Out PoemToBeDone "I Wish I Could Write My Life!" PoemToBeDone To the Friends that Remain 1913 PoemToBeDone The Vendetta PoemToBeDone The OId, Old Story PoemToBeDone Another Song of General Sickness and Tiredness PoemToBeDone Louis Becke Wide Lies Australia Along by Merry Christmas Time 1914 PoemToBeDone The Old Horse Ferry PoemToBeDone Eurunderee [1914] The Flour Bin PoemToBeDone "Trouble Belongit Mine" On Looking Through an Old Punishment Book Callaghan's Hotel The Lady of the Motor Car The Three Quiet Gentlemen The Unknown God A Fantasy of War Dawgs of War A Mixed Battle Song The March of Ivan A Dirge of Joy Grey Wolves Grey PoemToBeDone The Parley Voo Peddling Round the World A Slight Misunderstanding at the Jasper Gate PoemToBeDone Antwerp (1914) PoemToBeDone Soldier Libertine Kerosene Bay PoemToBeDone Commodore Blue PoemToBeDone The Sea-Caves A Mate Can Do No Wrong PoemToBeDone Old Southerly Buster Gets Lost PoemToBeDone The Local Spirit Caricatures All Ashore! PoemToBeDone Some New Year Wishes PoemToBeDone A Fantasy of Man PoemToBeDone Sons of Foreign Fathers PoemToBeDone ["Christmas Day"] PoemToBeDone "Of the Bigness of a Hand" PoemToBeDone ["A Sordid Tale"] 1915 PoemToBeDone The Year Fifteen My Army, O, My Army! Young Kings and Old Song of the Dardanelles PoemToBeDone A Thousand Friends and None The Route March PoemToBeDone The Recruiting Sergeants PoemToBeDone The Recruits Fighting Hard PoemToBeDone Brother-in-law and I The Vanguard [1915] PoemToBeDone The Foreign Legion PoemToBeDone Italiano Mostly Slavonic PoemToBeDone "Civilyun" PoemToBeDone Optimistic PoemToBeDone Hold Out! A New John Bull Said the Kaiser to the Spy PoemToBeDone A Dirge or a Wail, or Something PoemToBeDone A Dirge of Gloom PoemToBeDone Archie Ward PoemToBeDone Lawson's Dream The Old Stockman's Lament Booth's Drum [1915] Just Like Home The Three Kings [1915] The Captains Kiddies' Land The Unknown Patient Next Door PoemToBeDone Architect PoemToBeDone War on Women PoemToBeDone Old Portraits PoemToBeDone The Kangaroo Jack Tar PoemToBeDone Brother Piet 1916 Black Bonnets The Sacrifice of Ball's Head Amongst My Own People PoemToBeDone Leeton Town PoemToBeDone A Song of Yanco PoemToBeDone "Arrers" The Return PoemToBeDone Conscription PoemToBeDone The Portugee PoemToBeDone Billy Boy PoemToBeDone The Lone Mate PoemToBeDone In Flanders PoemToBeDone Women and Children Again To Roumania PoemToBeDone A Few Remarks Concerning A Bear PoemToBeDone The Calling of the Gods PoemToBeDone Lowe and Bee Hold Advertisement for Hean's Essence PoemToBeDone The Passing Stranger at Burrinjuck PoemToBeDone A Leeton Marching Song PoemToBeDone Old Joe Hunt PoemToBeDone Lest Dogs Defile! 1917 England Yet PoemToBeDone The Ballad of the Hundred and Third Scots of the Riverina PoemToBeDone Romani PoemToBeDone Don't Worry, Little Woman! PoemToBeDone Ripperty! Kye! Ahoo! PoemToBeDone Booth's Drum [1917] PoemToBeDone Gypsy Yet The Lovable Characters PoemToBeDone Posts and Rails PoemToBeDone Evatt's Block: A Drone of the Irrigation Area PoemToBeDone The Absent Jack PoemToBeDone The Friendless One PoemToBeDone The Right-O Girl PoemToBeDone The Mucklebraeans PoemToBeDone The Old Trouble PoemToBeDone Paddy-the-Ram PoemToBeDone Billo's Point of View Hawkers PoemToBeDone A Mixed-Up Business PoemToBeDone Auld Scottish Sangs PoemToBeDone Jack Kirkland PoemToBeDone The Song of the Kaiser's Mo' PoemToBeDone Uncle Samuel PoemToBeDone Russia 1917 PoemToBeDone The Ballad of the Casual Lunatic PoemToBeDone I Read A Song PoemToBeDone Mostly Matrimonial 1918 PoemToBeDone At The Sign of the Rotten Egg The Cockney Soul Wide Spaces The Tragedy Absolution — for the Woman Forgiveness — for the Strollers PoemToBeDone Those Messages from Mars PoemToBeDone The King His Crown PoemToBeDone The Belfries of Strassburg PoemToBeDone Peace? PoemToBeDone The Scandal 1919 Victory The League of Nations PoemToBeDone When You Get That Kindly Feeling PoemToBeDone "Shut Your Head!" PoemToBeDone England's Work Archibald's Monument PoemToBeDone Chatswood PoemToBeDone "Pictures" PoemToBeDone Mixed PoemToBeDone The Township PoemToBeDone The Row at Ryan's Pub [There's a Thought] PoemToBeDone Dog Battler 1920 PoemToBeDone The Origin of the "Lone Hand" PoemToBeDone Ninety-one and Ninety-two PoemToBeDone The Song of Tyrrell's Bell PoemToBeDone The Bard and Disbarred Uncle Harry PoemToBeDone Me an' Mack PoemToBeDone Granny's Specs PoemToBeDone I Patched His Pants PoemToBeDone The Delegates PoemToBeDone In Memory of Claude Marquet PoemToBeDone [In Memory of James J. Salter] PoemToBeDone To the Memory of Louisa Albury PoemToBeDone Bill Beach PoemToBeDone The Harriet PoemToBeDone The Female Touch PoemToBeDone Red Tape 1921 PoemToBeDone The Parsin for Edgerkashun PoemToBeDone To Tom The Rhyme of the Three Greybeards PoemToBeDone Aaron's Pass PoemToBeDone Dind's Hotel The Low Lighthouse PoemToBeDone Tom Mutch's Political Pyjamas 1922 PoemToBeDone In the Days When We Were Young PoemToBeDone A Hundred and One PoemToBeDone Coeurderoi PoemToBeDone Murphy PoemToBeDone The Upper Circle PoemToBeDone When the Visitors Go On The Night Train