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Verses, Popular and Humorous

Henry Lawson (1867–1922)

Poetry · first published 1900 · Sydney: Angus & Robertson

Lawson's second book of verse, including "The Lights of Cobb and Co." and many comic ballads.

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About 35,940 words · roughly 2.5 hours of reading (short) · 14 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 1900. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. VERSES POPULAR AND HUMOROUS
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. VIGNETTES BY FRANK P. MAHONY
  5. THE PORTS OF THE OPEN SEA
  6. THE THREE KINGS [A]
  7. THE OUTSIDE TRACK
  8. SYDNEY-SIDE
  9. THE ROVERS
  10. FOREIGN LANDS
  11. MARY LEMAINE
  12. THE SHAKEDOWN ON THE FLOOR
  13. REEDY RIVER
  14. OLD STONE CHIMNEY
  15. SONG OF THE OLD BULLOCK-DRIVER
  16. THE LIGHTS OF COBB AND CO.
  17. HOW THE LAND WAS WON
  18. THE BOSS OVER THE BOARD
  19. WHEN THE LADIES COME TO THE SHEARING SHED
  20. THE BALLAD OF THE ROUSEABOUT
  21. YEARS AFTER THE WAR IN AUSTRALIA
  22. THE OLD JIMMY WOODSER
  23. THE CHRIST OF THE ‘NEVER’
  24. THE CATTLE-DOG’S DEATH
  25. THE SONG OF THE DARLING RIVER
  26. RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS
  27. A MAY NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS
  28. THE NEW CHUM JACKAROO
  29. THE DONS OF SPAIN
  30. THE BURSTING OF THE BOOM
  31. ANTONY VILLA A Ballad of Ninety-three
  32. SECOND CLASS WAIT HERE
  33. THE SHIPS THAT WON’T GO DOWN
  34. THE MEN WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN
  35. THE WAY OF THE WORLD
  36. THE BATTLING DAYS
  37. WRITTEN AFTERWARDS
  38. THE UNCULTURED RHYMER TO HIS CULTURED CRITICS
  39. THE WRITER’S DREAM
  40. THE JOLLY DEAD MARCH
  41. MY LITERARY FRIEND
  42. MARY CALLED HIM ‘MISTER’
  43. REJECTED
  44. O’HARA, J.P.
  45. BILL AND JIM FALL OUT
  46. THE PAROO
  47. THE GREEN-HAND ROUSEABOUT
  48. THE MAN FROM WATERLOO ( With kind regards to “Banjo.” )
  49. SAINT PETER
  50. THE STRANGER’S FRIEND
  51. THE GOD-FORGOTTEN ELECTION
  52. THE BOSS’S BOOTS
  53. THE CAPTAIN OF THE PUSH
  54. BILLY’S ‘SQUARE AFFAIR’
  55. A DERRY ON A COVE
  56. RISE YE! RISE YE!
  57. THE BALLAD OF MABEL CLARE
  58. CONSTABLE M‘CARTY’S INVESTIGATIONS
  59. AT THE TUG-OF-WAR
  60. HERE’S LUCK!
  61. THE MEN WHO COME BEHIND
  62. THE DAYS WHEN WE WENT SWIMMING
  63. THE OLD BARK SCHOOL
  64. TROUBLE ON THE SELECTION
  65. THE PROFESSIONAL WANDERER
  66. A LITTLE MISTAKE
  67. A STUDY IN THE “NOOD”
  68. A WORD TO TEXAS JACK
  69. THE GROG-AN’-GRUMBLE STEEPLECHASE
  70. BUT WHAT’S THE USE

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