"Saint Peter" is a well-known

poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

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writer and poet

Henry Lawson Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) 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 perio ...

. It was first published on 8 April 1893 in The Bulletin.Austlit - "Saint Peter" by Henry Lawson
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Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...

. It was written to music in 1975 by Australian musician Peter Duggan and is now a popular Australian

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Verses, Popular and Humorous ''Verses, Popular and Humorous'' (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson publishers in 1900. It features some of the poet's earlier major works, including "The ...

'' (1900) * ''Humorous Verses'' by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson (1941) * ''Songs from Lawson'' edited by John Meredith, Bush Music Club (1957) * ''The World of Henry Lawson'' edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn (1974) * ''A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900'' edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne (1984)

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1893 poems Poetry by Henry Lawson {{Poem-stub

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