Ship

Ship

by Henry Lawson

This book contains a collection of poems and short stories by Henry Lawson, an Australian writer known for his realistic and often grim depictions of life in the Australian outback. The book includes the poem "The Ship," which is a meditation on the futility of war, as well as Lawson's memoir, "My Army, O, My Army!" which recounts his experiences as a soldier in the Boer War.

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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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