Henry Lawson
poet · Australia · 1867–1922
An Australian poet and short-story writer. Born in a tent on a goldfield, he lost most of his hearing as a boy and wrote while working at trades such as painting. He wrote of bush workers and bush women, and of the city poor.
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1888 · Written at twenty-one and first printed in a magazine in July 1888.
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown; For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet My window-sill is level with the faces in the street
“Faces in the Street”, in In the Days When the World Was Wide (1896)
1892 · A short story of a woman in a bush hut with her four children while her husband is away droving. First printed in 1892.
She is used to being left alone. She once lived like this for eighteen months. As a girl she built the usual castles in the air; but all her girlish hopes and aspirations have long been dead.
“The Drover's Wife”, in While the Billy Boils (1896)
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