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• On the road to Gundagai

  Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out.
  We'd whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about,

  by Anonymous Oceania 24 lines
• To-morrow I'm Losing My Darling

  I'm very unhappy, tho' nothing I've done.
  I'll tell you the cause of my sorrow;

  by Anonymous Oceania 40 lines
• Indian Weavers

  WEAVERS, weaving at break of day,
  Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . .

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• Song

  I am weaving a song of waters,
  Shaken from firm, brown limbs,

  by Gwendolyn Bennett 40 lines, 1 comment
• A Son Of A Gun

  I wish I had a barrel of rum
  and sugar three hundred pound.

  by Anonymous Americas 24 lines, 2 comments
• Anniversary Hymn

  The ever rolling flood of years,
  Is bearing us, our hopes and fears,

  by David John Scott 60 lines
• Riverbank Blues

  Went down to the river, sot me down an' listened,
  Heard de water talkin' quiet, quiet lak an' slow:

  by Sterling A Brown 31 lines
• The Maiden's Vow

  I've made a vow, I'll keep it true,
  I'll never married be;

  by Carolina Oliphant 13 lines
• Against The Coming Of May

  Against the coming of May
  That is ful of lustyness,

  by Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans 15 lines
• Bound No’th Blues

  Goin’ down the road, Lawd,
  Goin’ down the road.

  by Langston Hughes 26 lines, 1 comment
• With My Swag All On My Shoulder

  When first I left Old England's shore,
  Such yarns as we were told,

  by Anonymous Oceania 48 lines
• Knees Up, Mother Brown

  Oh, knees up, Mother Brown,
    Knees up, Mother Brown.

  by Anonymous British 9 lines, 1 comment
• Molly Means

  Sometimes at night through the shadowy trees
  She rides along on a winter breeze.

  by Margaret Walker 58 lines
• My Eppie Macnab

  O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?
  O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?

  by Robert Burns 16 lines
• Southern Road

  Swing dat hammer—hunh—
  Steady, bo';

  by Sterling A Brown 54 lines
• I Speak Not, I Trace Not, I Breathe Not Thy Name

  I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
  There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 21 lines, 2 comments
• Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me

  Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
  Of my heart, of my heart,

  by John Dowland 15 lines
• My Spouse Nancy

  "Husband, husband, cease your strife,
  Nor longer idly rave, Sir;

  by Robert Burns 34 lines, 2 comments
• Life Brought Me So I Came

  The life brought me so I came; the death takes me away so I go
  Neither I came on my own nor I go with my will

  by Zauq 23 lines
• Ancient Gaelic Melody

  Birds of omen dark and foul,
  Night-crow, raven, bat, and owl

  by Sir Walter Scott 36 lines
• Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu)

  You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
  Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan.

  by Sarojini Naidu 10 lines
• Suttee

  LAMP of my life, the lips of Death
  Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• Love Came Down at Christmas

  Love came down at Christmas,
  Love all lovely, love divine;

  by Christina Georgina Rossetti 13 lines
• Anna Var I Anders Kær

  Anna var i Anders kær, men knibsk alligevel

  by Jeppe Aakjaer 40 lines
• Come Ye Heavy States Of Night

  Come ye heavy states of night,
  Do my father's spirit right,

  by John Dowland 12 lines
• Alabaster

  Like this alabaster box whose art
  Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,

  by Sarojini Naidu 10 lines, 8 comments
• Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled

  Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled,
  What heavn's then governs earth,

  by John Dowland 11 lines
• A New Song

  Ah blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way
  My notions and actions run far.

  by Thomas Chatterton 28 lines, 1 comment
• The Cold Water Army

  With banner and with badge we come,
  An Army true and strong,

  by John Pierpont 23 lines
• Away Down South In The Land of Traitors

  Away down South in the land of traitors,
  Rattlesnakes and alligators,

  by Anonymous Americas 42 lines

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