Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music

The Verse of Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson was born on the New South Wales goldfields in 1867 and was a prolific writer of verse. He was primarily a writer and was known to suffer from alcoholism and mental illness, being treated in mental hospitals several times. He also suffered several periods of imprisonment, no doubt the result of his alcoholic indulgence and mental problems. Such behaviour is today a little more recognised for what it is and many of the great poets suffered similar problems. Among them was Adam Lindsay Gordon to name just one of the Australians.

Index

Andy's Gone With Cattle
Ballad of the Drover
Faces In The Street
Jack Dunn of Nevertire
Scots of the Riverina
Sweeney
The Fire at Ross's Farm
The Glass on the Bar
The Lights of Cobb & Co
The Roaring Days
The Sliprails and the Spur

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