Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922)

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Henry Lawson (17 June 1867, Grenfell goldfields, New South Wales - 2 September 1922, Sydney) was an Australian writer and poet. Lawson and his contemporary Banjo Paterson are the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period. His mother was Louisa Lawson 1847 - 1920 was a prominent suffragist and owner/editor of The Dawn journal which was partly responsible for Australia becoming one of the first countries to attain adult female suffrage. His father was Niels Larsen, .. Continue..

Some of Henry Lawson Poems

If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine,

The Rhyme of the Three Greybeards

Here Died

The Roaring Days

The Things We Dare Not Tell

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Quote from Author

	Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

- Henry Lawson

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