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In the Height of Fashion Henry Lawson	Once we suffered all save gaol, if We’d no rich admirers near; And our sole guest was the bailiff And our only comfort...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Ruth Henry Lawson	in the world, and a man is respected—in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad Of François Villon, Prince Of All Ballad-Makers Algernon Charles Swinburne	And plume-plucked gaol-birds for thy starveling peers Till death clipt close their flight with shameful shears; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mate can do no Wrong Henry Lawson	We learnt it when we were in gaol And put it in a song: ' No matter what a mate may do, A mate can do no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aghadoe John Todhunter	Brought his head from the gaol's gate to Aghadoe; Then I cover'd him with fern, and I piled on him the cairn, Like an Irish...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epigram Addressed To The Gentlemen Reflected On In The Rosciad, A Poem, By The Author Oliver Goldsmith	His pen he prostitutes t' avoid a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bold Jack Donahoo Andrew Barton Paterson	But when they came to Sydney gaol, he left them in a stew, And when they came to call the roll, they missed bold...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bookshelf Robert William Service	Then Reading Gaol, Where Fate a gruesome pattern makes, And dawn-light shudders as it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Condemned Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	And last the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cypher Seven Henry Lawson	With dried and haggard eyes, In gaol for just blows stricken— In gaol for women’s...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Day and Night Ian Sawicki	bliss; release from gaol's grey powerful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
DAY THE WORLD ENDED: WHEN MY BROTHER DIED Phil Roberts	And the driver was given just six months in gaol, After twenty-one years the hurting hasn't stopped And for those left behind the justice...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Domestic Scene Robert William Service	Before they throw me into gaol I guess I'd better do a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epigrams William Watson	The lark sings o'er a madhouse, or a gaol;-- Such nice antitheses of perfect poise Chance in her curious rhetoric...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Execution, The : A Sporting Anecdote Hon. Mr. Sucklethumbkin's Story Richard Harris Barham	Where in front of the gaol, he Pulls up at the door of the gin-shop, and gaily Cries, 'What must I fork out to-night,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Farewell Dark Gaol Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Farewell, dark...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Father Riley's Horse Andrew Barton Paterson	But it's harder still, is keeping out of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
French Leave Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Unheeding, let no fear of gaol unman...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Happiness Paul. W. B. Marsden	Freedom in empty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto I Samuel Butler	And mainprize for him to the gaol, To answer, with his vessel, all, That might disastrously befall; And thought it now the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hunted Down Henry Kendall	loose from the guards of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Introduction To A Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan	I lighted on a certain place where was a den (the gaol), and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept, I dreamed a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jack Corrigan Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	"Three years in gaol, in gaol three years," the jeering echoes sang; The granite boulders caught...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Kitty McCrae - A Galloping Rhyme Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	And I'd rather rot in the nearest gaol Than ride to-night with the Greytown...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mister William William Schwenck Gilbert	never reconciled himself to life in gaol, He fretted and he pined, and grew dispirited and pale; He was numbered like a cabman, too,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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