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Reedy River

by Henry Lawson

This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Verses Popular and Humorous (pub 1900). This was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson.

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Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1900

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Henry Lawson

Australia

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial...

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