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Also known as Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson

Australian writer and poet (1867–1922)

Person · Open Library

Born
17 June 1867
Died
2 September 1922
Works
146

Top works

  • A book of verse
  • Andy's gone with cattle
  • Letters, 1890-1922
  • When I was king
  • Song of the Dardanelles, and other verses

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
2009
pop rock

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Listeners
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Total plays
110

Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period, and is often called Australia's "greatest writer". He was born in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales. His father was Niels Herzberg Larsen, a Norwegian-born miner who went to sea at 21 and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush, along with partner Wil

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Quotes

  • When the school children of Australia are told more truths about their own country, and fewer lies about the virtues of Royalty, the day will be near when we can place our own national flag in one of the proudest places among the ensigns of the world.
  • If Federation — whether Imperial or of the world — should ever appear in a better light than at present there will be plenty of time to consider it. But for the present, let our colonies try to cultivate a still more brotherly feeling for each other, and the day will come when the sons of all the colonies can clasp hands and say truly, “We are Australians — we know no other land!”
  • Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
  • The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage—anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

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