Henry Lawson: Middleton's Rouseabout
The DayPoems Poetry Collection
Timothy Bovee, editor
www.daypoems.net



  Click on the bonsai for the next poem.



DayPoems Forum

Click to submit poems to DayPoems, comment on DayPoems or a poem within, comment on other poetry sites, update links, or simply get in touch. DayPoems Forum.

DayPoems Front

Poetry Whirl
  Google Henry Lawson
  Latest Poetry News

Indexes
  Poems
  Poets
  Editor's poems
  Poetry Places

Poetry Places
  Peterson, Lori - She Speaks
  Winters, Jonathon - Poetry of an Austinite Punker
  Poems by Philip Jose Farmer
  Benson, Chris - The Left Hand Tree
  Melly's Page
  Central California Poets

Nodes powered by
Open Directory Project<br>at dmoz.org
Open Directory Project at dmoz.org


DayPoems Favorites

  PORT: An Online Visual Arts Journal
  A Poet on a Magical Journey Home
  Chronicles of a Sea Woman
  Parallels Studio
  Bipolar Poetry
  Mantra.X
  Poetry, Film and Books
  Poetry Archive

  Project Gutenberg, a huge collection of books as text, produced as a volunteer enterprise starting in 1990. This is the source of the first poetry placed on DayPoems.
  Tina Blue's Beginner's Guide to Prosody, exactly what the title says, and well worth reading.
  popomo.net, miniature, minimalist-inspired sculptures created from industrial cereamics, an art project at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
  pink.popomo.net, More projects from Portland
  oarena.net, Furby, Eliza, Mr_Friss and Miss_Friss.
  Save Point 0.8.1, a Portland, Oregon, exhibit, Aug. 13-Sept. 5, 2004, at Disjecta.




D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

*
D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

*
D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

*
D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

*
D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

*
D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

*
D
a
y
P
o
e
m
s

Click here!
Won't you help support DayPoems?

Middleton's Rouseabout

Born 6/17/1867


Tall and freckled and sandy,
         Face of a country lout;
This was the picture of Andy,
         Middleton's Rouseabout.

Type of a coming nation,
         In the land of cattle and sheep,
Worked on Middleton's station,
         "Pound a week and his keep."

On Middleton's wide dominions
         Plied the stockwhip and shears;
Hadn't any opinions,
         Hadn't any "idears".

Swiftly the years went over,
         Liquor and drought prevailed;
Middleton went as a drover,
         After his station had failed.

Type of a careless nation,
         Men who are soon played out,
Middleton was: -- and his station
         Was bought by the Rouseabout.

Flourishing beard and sandy,
         Tall and robust and stout;
This is the picture of Andy,
         Middleton's Rouseabout.

Now on his own dominions
         Works with his overseers;
Hasn't any opinions,
         Hasn't any "idears".


Back to top

DayPoems Poem No. 944



Comment on DayPoems?

If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, DayPoems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at DayPoems Feedback.



Won't you help support DayPoems?


Click here to learn more about how you can keep DayPoems on the Web . . .


Copyright

The DayPoems web site, www.daypoems.net, is copyright 2001-2006 by Timothy Keith Bovee. All rights reserved.

The authors of poetry and other material appearing on DayPoems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of DayPoems will gladly attempt to assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors.

Google DayPoems


Support DayPoems.

Buy your books here

Latest Chapbooks from Powells!!!

 
Search:
Keywords:
In Association with Amazon.com







Bonsai courtesy of
The Online Bonsai Icon Collection
http://www.hav.com/tobic.html