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• That Cause Can Ne­ver Be Lost Nor Stayed

  That cause can never be lost nor stayed
  Which takes the course of what God has made;

  by Jens Christian Aaberg 16 lines
• A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter

  Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,
  My own dead mother gazed upon my face,

  by Henry Timrod 0 lines
• Flash Jack from Gundagai

  I've shore at Burrabogie, and I've shore at Toganmain,
  I've shore at big Willandra and upon the old Coleraine,

  by Anonymous Oceania 22 lines, 1 comment
• Bouquet

  Gather quickly
  Out of darkness

  by Langston Hughes 13 lines
• While with fond rapture and amaze

  While with fond rapture and amaze
  On thy transcendent charms I gaze,

  by Tobias Smollett 24 lines, 1 comment
• The Maranoa Drovers

  The night is dark and stormy, and the sky is clouded o'er;
  Our horses we will mount and ride away,

  by Anonymous Oceania 25 lines
• Bourke's Dream

  Lonely and sadly one night in November
  I laid down my weary head in search of repose

  by Anonymous Oceania 44 lines
• I Was Not He

  I was not he--the man
  Who used to pilgrim to your gate,

  by Thomas Hardy 15 lines
• Ben Hall

  My name is Ben Hall from Urunga I came,
  The cause of my turn out you all know the same;

  by Anonymous Oceania 20 lines
• Gude Nicht, and Joy Be Wi' Ye A'

  The best o' joys maun hae an end,
  The best o' friends maun part, I trow;

  by Carolina Oliphant 24 lines
• From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,

  From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,
  I will freely describe the wretch I despise;

  by Tobias Smollett 16 lines, 2 comments
• Goorianawa

  Now I'm getting broken mouthed,
  My shearing's at an end,

  by Anonymous Oceania 13 lines
• Stanzas For Music: There's Not A Joy The World Can Give

  There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away
  When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay;

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 23 lines
• A Dream-Song

  The stars are spinning their threads,
  And the clouds are the dust that flies,

  by George MacDonald 16 lines
• Hymn

  Accept this building, gracious Lord,
  No temple though it be;

  by Charles Kingsley 25 lines, 1 comment
• Hébé

  
  Les yeux baissés, rougissante et candide,

  by Louise-Victorine Choquet Ackermann 30 lines
• Begone Vile Rum

  Begone, vile rum, I prithee begone from me,
  Begone, vile rum, thou and I shall never agree,

  by John Pierpont 12 lines
• A Song For Freedom

  Come all ye bondmen far and near,
  Let's put a song in massa's ear,

  by Anonymous Americas 58 lines
• A National Song for Australia Felix

  Dark over the face of Nature sublime
  Reign'd tyranny, warfare, and every crime;

  by Anonymous Oceania 38 lines
• To A Star

  Am I the only child awake
  Beneath thy midnight beams?

  by John Bannister Tabb 8 lines
• The Song of Harold Harfager

  The sun is rising dimly red,
  The wind is wailing low and dread;

  by Sir Walter Scott 40 lines
• À la Goutte d'Or

  En ce temps là dans chaqu' famille,
  On blanchissait de mère en fille

  by Aristide Bruant 36 lines
• Come Join The Abolitionists

  Come join the Abolitionists,
  Ye young men bold and strong.

  by Anonymous Americas 36 lines
• One Melody (excerpt)

  Bad verse at times I write, I know;
  I'm read but little luckily;

  by Vladimir Vasek 8 lines
• Longing

  WHAT pulls at my heart so?
  What tells me to roam?

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 40 lines, 1 comment
• Dunn, Gilbert and Ben Hall

  Come! all ye lads of loyalty,
       and listen to my tale;

  by Anonymous Oceania 61 lines, 3 comments
• My Religion

  Let Romanists all at Confessional kneel,
  Let the Jew with disgust turn from it,

  by Anonymous Oceania 24 lines, 1 comment
• Stanzas For Music: There Be None Of Beauty's Daughters

  There be none of Beauty's daughters
  With a magic like Thee;

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 15 lines
• River Bend

  At River Bend, in New South Wales,
  All alone among the whales,

  by Anonymous Oceania 25 lines
• Song V. - On every tree, in every plain

  
  On every tree, in every plain,

  by William Shenstone 26 lines

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