Author:Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson
(1867–1922)

Henry Lawson

Works

Collections of Poetry and Prose

• While the Billy Boils (collection, 1896)
• On the Track (collection, 1900)
• Over the Sliprails (collection, 1900)
• The Country I Come From (collection, 1901)
• In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses (collection of verses, 1896) (external scan)
• Joe Wilson and His Mates (collection, 1901)
• Verses: Popular and Humorous (1900)
• The Romance of the Swag (collection, 1907)
• Send Round the Hat (collection, 1907)
• The Rising Of The Court, and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse (collection, 1910)
• Triangles of Life and Other Stories (collection, 1913)
• Children of the Bush (1902)

Poems

1880s

• "Flag of the Southern Cross" (1887)
• "A Song of the Republic" (1887)
• "The Wreck of Derry Castle" (1887)
• "Andy's Gone with Cattle" (1888)
• "Andy's Return" (1888)
• "The Blue Mountains" (1888)
• "Faces in the Street" (1888)
• "The Ballad of the Drover" (1889)
• "The Ghost" (1889)
• "The Roaring Days" (1889)
• "The Teams" (1889)

1890s

• "The Fire at Ross's Farm" (1890)
• "Middleton's Rouseabout" (1890)
• "The Song of Old Joe Swallow" (1890)
• "A Word to Texas Jack" (1890)
• "The Babies of Walloon" (1891)
• "Freedom on the Wallaby" (1891)
• "My Literary Friend" (1891)
• "The Shame of Going Back" (1891)
• "The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase" (1892)
• "In Answer to Banjo, and Otherwise" (1892) (aka "The City Bushman")
• "The Poets of the Tomb" (1892)
• "Up The Country" (1892)
• "The Great Grey Plain" (1893)
• "Out Back" (1893)
• "Saint Peter" (1893)
• "Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers" (1894)
• "In the Days When the World Was Wide" (1894)
• "Knocked Up" (1894)
• "The Vagabond" (1895)
• "Past Carin'" (1896)
• "The Star of Australasia" (1896)
• "The Old Bark School" (1897)
• "The Lights of Cobb and Co." (1897)
• "Sydney-Side" (1898)
• "The Sliprails and the Spur" (1899)

1900s

• "The Men Who Made Australia" (1901)
• "The Never-Never Country" (1901)
• "A Voice from the City" (1903)
• "The Wander-Light" (1903)
• "The Ballad of the Elder Son" (1904)
• "The Bard of Furthest Out" (1906)
• "To Be Amused" (1906)
• "To Victor Daley" (1906)
• "The Bush Beyond the Range" (1907)
• "Meditations on a Pawn Ticket" (1908)
• "One Hundred and Three" (1908)
• "At the Beating of a Drum" (1910)
• "Scots of the Riverina" (1917)

From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):

• "England Yet" pp. 50-1.
• "Song of the Dardanelles" pp. 70-2.
• "Fighting Hard" pp. 72-3.

Short Stories and Sketches

• "The Bush Undertaker" (1892)
• "The Drover's Wife" (1892)
• "Another of Mitchell's Plans" (1893)
• "Mitchell: A Character Sketch" (1893)
• "Mitchell Doesn't Believe in the Sack" (1893)
• "On The Edge Of A Plain" (1893)
• "The Shearing of the Cook's Dog" (1893)
• "'Some Day'" (1893)
• "The Union Buries Its Dead" (1893)
• "Enter Mitchell" (1894)
• "The Mystery of Dave Regan" (1894)
• "Shooting The Moon" (1894)
• "Our Pipes" (1895)
• "Steelman" (1895)
• "Steelman's Pupil" (1895)
• "The Geological Spieler" (1896)
• "An Oversight of Steelman’s" (1897)
• "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster" (1898)
• "Andy Page's Rival" (1899)
• "How Steelman told his Story" (1899)
• "The Loaded Dog" (1899)
• "Brighten's Sister-in-law" (1900)
• "A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper" (1900)
• "The Iron-Bark Chip" (1900)
• "The Shanty-Keeper's Wife" (1900)
• "A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek" (1901)
• "Joe Wilson's Courtship" (1900)
• "An Incident at Stiffner’s" (1900)
• "The Hero of Redclay" (1900)
• "The Darling River" (1900)
• "A Case for the Oracle" (1900)
• "A Daughter of Maoriland" (1900)
• "New Year’s Night" (1900)
• "Black Joe" (1900)
• "They Wait on the Wharf in Black" (1900)
• "Seeing the Last of You" (1900)
• "Two Boys at Grinder Brothers’" (1900)
• "The Selector’s Daughter" (1900)
• "Mitchell on the “Sex” and Other “Problems”" (1900)
• "The Master’s Mistake" (1900)
• "The Story of the Oracle" (1900)
• "Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left" (1901)
• "Water Them Geraniums" (1901)
• "A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father" (1902)
• "The Rising of the Court" (1907)
• "The Hypnotized Township" (1910)
• "The Bath" (1910)
• "Bermagui - In a Strange Sunset" (1910)
• "The Exciseman" (1910)
• "Instinct Gone Wrong" (1910)
• "Wanted by the Police" (1910)
• "“Roll Up At Talbragar”" (1910)
• "Mateship in Shakespeare's Rome" (1910)

Essays

• "A Neglected History"
• "Australian Loyalty"
• "United Division"