item: #1 of 6 id: 15524 author: Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James) title: Digger Smith date: None words: 11934 flesch: 101 summary: 'E sez 'e's only 'arf a man; an' grins. DIGGER SMITH 'E calls me Digger; that's 'ow 'e begins ... V. WEST I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime ... VI. keywords: ave; digger; e sez; ere; flood; jim; jist; man; ole; sez; smith; things; war; wot; yeh cache: 15524.txt plain text: 15524.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 16362 author: Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James) title: The Glugs of Gosh date: None words: 14705 flesch: 94 summary: Said Sym, I shall tinker, and still be a king. But all the Glugs, with one accord, A chorus of approval roared. Said Sym: Kind friends, and fellow Glugs; My trade is mending pots and mugs. keywords: day; dog; glug; gosh; high; joi; king; land; man; quog; sir; splosh; stodge; stones; swanks; sym; tinker; tis; trees cache: 16362.txt plain text: 16362.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 214 author: Lawson, Henry title: In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses date: None words: 29004 flesch: 84 summary: 'Not good day, Trooper Campbell, It's a bad, bad day for me -- You are of all the men on earth The one I wished to see. For there always was behind us OTHER days o' long ago. keywords: aft; bush; city; country; days; dunn; face; fire; good; great; heart; home; jack; land; life; love; man; mate; men; nevertire; night; past; plain; rise; round; saw; shanty; star; street; times; track; twas; west; world; years cache: 214.txt plain text: 214.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 304 author: Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton) title: Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses date: None words: 24432 flesch: 85 summary: 'And I am sure as man can be That out upon the track, Those phantoms that men cannot see Are waiting now to ride with me, And I shall not come back. Anthony Considine Out in the wastes of the West countrie, Out where the white stars shine, Grim and silent as such men be, Rideth a man with a history -- Anthony Considine. keywords: 'em; bill; cattle; course; day; dead; fight; good; gun; half; hall; hard; home; horse; land; man; men; race; ride; round; run; saltbush; smith; time; town; track; twas; water; way; win cache: 304.txt plain text: 304.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 4730 author: Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James) title: The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke date: None words: 15845 flesch: 98 summary: She's fit fer any man, to be 'is queen; An' you're more forchinit than you kin say, Young friend, 'e sez. An' 'im not three weeks old! Goog, goo, 'e sez. keywords: bloke; day; days; doreen; e sez; eart; ere; eyes; fair; fer; friend; jist; life; little; look; man; ole; sez; sorter; way; wiv; wot; wus; yeh; yer cache: 4730.txt plain text: 4730.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 962 author: Kendall, Henry title: The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens date: None words: 98280 flesch: 82 summary: But _I_, as the roofs of the thunder Were cloven with manifold fires, Turned back from the wail and the wonder, And dreamed of old days and desires. Thereafter grew the wind; and chafing depths In distant waters sent a troubled cry Across the slumb'rous forest; and the chill Of coming rain was on the sleeper's brow, When, flat as reptiles hutted in the scrub, A deadly crescent crawled to where he lay-- A band of fierce, fantastic savages That, starting naked round the faded fire, With sudden spears and swift terrific yells, Came bounding wildly at the white man's head, And faced him, staring like a dream of Hell! keywords: away; beauty; bright; cold; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; dream; eyes; face; fair; fall; far; father; feet; fierce; fire; flame; forest; friend; god; grave; green; grey; hand; hath; head; heart; hills; home; hope; land; leaves; left; life; lips; look; lord; love; man; men; moon; morning; mountain; music; night; o'er; old; past; place; rain; river; rose; round; sea; set; shadow; sleep; song; sorrow; soul; spirit; storm; sun; thee; things; thou; thunder; time; voice; waters; ways; white; wild; wind; words; world; years cache: 962.txt plain text: 962.txt