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In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses

Henry Lawson (1867–1922)

Poetry · first published 1896 · Sydney: Angus & Robertson

Lawson's first major book of verse: ballads of the track, the city and the bush.

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About 28,538 words · roughly 2.0 hours of reading (short) · 8 sections online · In: Bush poetry

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Henry Lawson (author) died in 1922. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1972. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1896. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES
  2. (2 ed.)
  3. by Henry Lawson
  4. PREFACE
  5. To J. F. Archibald
  6. To an Old Mate
  7. CONTENTS WITH FIRST LINES
  8. IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES
  9. In the Days When the World was Wide
  10. Faces in the Street
  11. The Roaring Days
  12. 'For'ard'
  13. The Drover's Sweetheart
  14. Out Back
  15. The Free-Selector's Daughter
  16. 'Sez You'
  17. Andy's Gone With Cattle
  18. Jack Dunn of Nevertire
  19. Trooper Campbell
  20. The Sliprails and the Spur
  21. Past Carin'
  22. The Glass on the Bar
  23. The Shanty on the Rise
  24. The Vagabond
  25. Sweeney
  26. Middleton's Rouseabout
  27. The Ballad of the Drover
  28. Taking His Chance
  29. When the 'Army' Prays for Watty
  30. The Wreck of the 'Derry Castle'
  31. Ben Duggan
  32. The Star of Australasia
  33. The Great Grey Plain
  34. The Song of Old Joe Swallow
  35. Corny Bill
  36. Cherry-Tree Inn
  37. Up the Country
  38. Knocked Up
  39. The Blue Mountains
  40. The City Bushman
  41. Eurunderee
  42. Mount Bukaroo
  43. The Fire at Ross's Farm
  44. The Teams
  45. Cameron's Heart
  46. The Shame of Going Back
  47. Since Then
  48. Peter Anderson and Co.
  49. When the Children Come Home
  50. Dan, the Wreck
  51. A Prouder Man Than You
  52. The Song and the Sigh
  53. The Cambaroora Star
  54. After All
  55. Marshall's Mate
  56. The Poets of the Tomb
  57. Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers
  58. The Ghost
  59. The End.
  60. WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE,
  61. WHILE THE BILLY BOILS.

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