• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

The Institute of Australian Culture

Heritage, history, and heroes; literature, legends, and larrikins

  • Home
  • Articles
  • Biographies
  • Books
  • Ephemera
  • Poetry & songs
  • Slang
  • Timeline
  • Topics
    • Anzac Day
    • Australia Day
    • Australian Aborigines
    • Australianism
    • Australian literature
    • The Eureka Rebellion
    • Explorers
    • Significant events and commemorative dates

In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (Henry Lawson 1896)

To an Old Mate [poem by Henry Lawson]

15 September 2012 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This poem by Henry Lawson was published in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses, 1896.] To an Old Mate Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our troubles were new, In the years spent in wearing out leather, I found you … [Read more...] about To an Old Mate [poem by Henry Lawson]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Henry Lawson (author) (1867-1922), In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (Henry Lawson 1896), poem, SourceArchiveOrg, year1896

Preface [In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses, by Henry Lawson]

15 September 2012 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This preface by Henry Lawson was published in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses, 1896.] Preface. Most of the verses contained in this volume were first published in the Sydney Bulletin; others in the Brisbane Boomerang, Sydney Freeman’s … [Read more...] about Preface [In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses, by Henry Lawson]

Filed Under: prefaces, dedications, introductions, miscellaneous sections Tagged With: Henry Lawson (author) (1867-1922), In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (Henry Lawson 1896), preface, SourceArchiveOrg, year1896

In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses [by Henry Lawson, 1896]

15 September 2012 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This collection of poems, written by Henry Lawson was first published in 1896.] In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses By Henry Lawson, author of “While the Billy Boils,” “On the Track and Over the Sliprails,” “Verses: Popular and Humorous” … [Read more...] about In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses [by Henry Lawson, 1896]

Filed Under: books booklets pamphlets Tagged With: book, Henry Lawson (author) (1867-1922), In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (Henry Lawson 1896), SourceArchiveOrg, year1896

When the Children Come Home [poem by Henry Lawson]

4 May 2012 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This poem by Henry Lawson was published in Short Stories in Prose and Verse (1894) and In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (1896).] When the Children Come Home On a lonely selection far out in the west An old woman works all the day without … [Read more...] about When the Children Come Home [poem by Henry Lawson]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Henry Lawson (author) (1867-1922), In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (Henry Lawson 1896), poem, Short Stories in Prose and Verse (Henry Lawson 1894), SourceSLNSW, year1894

The Fire at Ross’s Farm [poem by Henry Lawson]

4 May 2012 · 2 Comments

[Editor: This poem by Henry Lawson was published in Short Stories in Prose and Verse (1894) and In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (1896).] The Fire at Ross’s Farm The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the … [Read more...] about The Fire at Ross’s Farm [poem by Henry Lawson]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Henry Lawson (author) (1867-1922), In The Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (Henry Lawson 1896), poem, poetry about bushfires, recommended poetry, Short Stories in Prose and Verse (Henry Lawson 1894), SourceSLNSW, year1894

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3

Primary Sidebar

Australian flag, 100hThe Institute of Australian Culture
Heritage, history, and heroes. Literature, legends, and larrikins. Stories, songs, and sages.

Featured books

The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, by Banjo Paterson A Book for Kids, by C. J. Dennis  The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation from The Bulletin The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, by C. J. Dennis The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang and Their Pursuers, by J. J. Kenneally The Foundations of Culture in Australia, by P. R. Stephensen The Australian Crisis, by C. H. Kirmess Such Is Life, by Joseph Furphy
More books (full text)

Featured lists

Timeline of Australian history and culture
A list of significant Australiana
Significant events and commemorative dates
Australian slang
Books (full text)
Australian literature
Rock music and pop music (videos)
Folk music and bush music (videos)
Early music (videos)
Recommended poetry
Poetry and songs, 1786-1900
Poetry and songs, 1901-1954
Australian explorers
Topics
Links

Featured posts

Advance Australia Fair: How the song became the Australian national anthem
Brian Cadd [music videos and biography]
Ned Kelly: Australian bushranger
Under the Southern Cross I Stand [the Australian cricket team’s victory song]

Some Australian authors

E. J. Brady
John Le Gay Brereton
C. J. Dennis
Mary Hannay Foott
Joseph Furphy
Mary Gilmore
Charles Harpur
Grant Hervey
Lucy Everett Homfray
Rex Ingamells
Henry Kendall
“Kookaburra”
Henry Lawson
Jack Moses
“Dryblower” Murphy
John Shaw Neilson
John O’Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)
“Banjo” Paterson
Marie E. J. Pitt
A. G. Stephens
P. R. Stephensen
Agnes L. Storrie (Agnes L. Kettlewell)

Recent Posts

  • Vale! Percy Mahoney [by H. A. Burton, 14 December 1950]
  • Early-day sportsman’s death [obituary of Percy Mahoney, 7 December 1950]
  • Visits to the IAC site from various countries
  • Poems by J. Shaw Neilson [book review, 22 December 1923]
  • “Australia in Palestine” [book review, 6 November 1919]

Top Posts & Pages

  • The Man from Snowy River [poem by Banjo Paterson]
  • Clancy of The Overflow [poem by Banjo Paterson]
  • The Man from Ironbark [poem by Banjo Paterson]
  • Surely God was a Lover [poem by John Shaw Neilson]
  • The drover’s wife [by Henry Lawson]

Categories

Archives

Posts of note

The Bastard from the Bush [poem, circa 1900]
A Book for Kids [by C. J. Dennis, 1921]
Click Go the Shears [traditional Australian song, 1890s]
Core of My Heart [“My Country”, poem by Dorothea Mackellar, 24 October 1908]
Freedom on the Wallaby [poem by Henry Lawson, 16 May 1891]
The Man from Ironbark [poem by Banjo Paterson]
Nationality [poem by Mary Gilmore, 12 May 1942]
The Newcastle song [music video, sung by Bob Hudson]
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest [poem by Mary Gilmore, 29 June 1940]
Our pipes [short story by Henry Lawson]
Rommel’s comments on Australian soldiers [1941-1942]
Shooting the moon [short story by Henry Lawson]

Search this site



For Australia


Copyright © 2022 · Log in