Poems by Henry Lawson
Something Better was the first Lawson poem I ever read. My friend Chris from Sydney sent it to me in April 2020, with the remark: "In this time of the lamps of freedom flickering and guttering everywhere, it seemed a serendipitous discovery." Truer words have rarely been spoken. 't is the hope of something better that will save us in the end ‒ I get a smile on my face whenever I think of those lines.
I hope these poems speak to you like they did to me. May they convince you that our world ‒ notwithstanding all the crazy things that have been going on since the time Henry Lawson first penned them, from the War on Communism to the War on Drugs, the War on Terror and now the War on Bugs ‒ may these poems convince you nonetheless that our amazing Earth is a grand world after all!
From In the Days When the World Was Wide, 1896:
From the journal New Australia, 1894:
From Verses, Popular and Humorous, 1900:
From When I was King and Other Verses, 1905:
From: My Army, O, My Army! And Other Songs, 1915:
From: Selected Poems by Henry Lawson, 1918: