Book: In the Days When the World Was Wide

• Andy's Gone With Cattle

  Our Andy's gone to battle now
  'Gainst Drought, the red marauder;

  38 lines, 2 comments
• The Shanty On The Rise

  When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West,
  On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' Rest';

  68 lines
• The Teams

  A cloud of dust on the long white road,
  And the teams go creeping on

  46 lines, 2 comments
• Sweeney

  It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down,
  When I came, in search of `copy', to a Darling-River town;

  88 lines
• The Drover's Sweetheart

  An hour before the sun goes down
  Behind the ragged boughs,

  70 lines
• The Great Grey Plain

  Out West, where the stars are brightest,
  Where the scorching north wind blows,

  71 lines
• Cameron's Heart

  The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came,
  With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a parson `at ha

  54 lines
• Faces In The Street

  They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
  That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown;

  102 lines, 4 comments
• When Your Pants Begin to Go

  When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white,
      And you cannot sleep for thinking how you'll reach to-mor

  56 lines, 3 comments
• Andy's Gone With Cattle

  Our Andy's gone to battle now
  'Gainst Drought, the red marauder;

  38 lines, 2 comments
• The Shanty On The Rise

  When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West,
  On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' Rest';

  68 lines
• Sweeney

  It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down,
  When I came, in search of `copy', to a Darling-River town;

  88 lines
• The Great Grey Plain

  Out West, where the stars are brightest,
  Where the scorching north wind blows,

  71 lines
• Faces In The Street

  They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
  That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown;

  102 lines, 4 comments
• The Teams

  A cloud of dust on the long white road,
  And the teams go creeping on

  46 lines, 2 comments
• Cameron's Heart

  The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came,
  With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a parson `at ha

  54 lines
• The Drover's Sweetheart

  An hour before the sun goes down
  Behind the ragged boughs,

  70 lines
• To An Old Mate

      Old Mate!  In the gusty old weather,
      When our hopes and our troubles were new,

  41 lines, 2 comments
• Jack Dunn of Nevertire

  It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done,
  A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run;

  78 lines, 1 comment
• Trooper Campbell

  One day old Trooper Campbell
  Rode out to Blackman's Run,

  161 lines
• The Sliprails and the Spur

  The colours of the setting sun
  Withdrew across the Western land —

  47 lines
• Past Carin'

  Now up and down the siding brown
  The great black crows are flyin',

  63 lines
• The Glass On The Bar

  Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn,
  And one of them called for the drinks with a grin;

  34 lines
• In The Days When The World Was Wide

  The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow,
  For little is new where the crowds resort, and less where

  95 lines
• Taking His Chance

  They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise;
  May Carney looked up in the bushranger's eyes:

  48 lines
• When The `Army' Prays For Watty

  When the kindly hours of darkness, save for light of moon and star,
  Hide the picture on the signboard over Doughty's Horse Bazaar;

  29 lines, 1 comment
• The Wreck Of The `Derry Castle'

  Day of ending for beginnings!
  Ocean hath another innings,

  39 lines
• Ben Duggan

  Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,
  And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a man;

  70 lines
• The Song Of Old Joe Swallow

  When I was up the country in the rough and early days,
  I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's bullick-drays;

  66 lines
• Corny Bill

  His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth,
  His hat pushed from his brow,

  71 lines
• Cherry- Tree Inn

  The rafters are open to sun, moon, and star,
  Thistles and nettles grow high in the bar —

  42 lines
• Up The Country

  I am back from up the country — very sorry that I went —
  Seeking for the Southern poets' land whereon to pitch my tent;

  61 lines
• Knocked Up

  I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought,
  And dunno if my legs or back or heart is most wore out;

  40 lines
• The Blue Mountains

  Above the ashes straight and tall,
  Through ferns with moisture dripping,

  34 lines
• The Fire At Ross's Farm

  The squatter saw his pastures wide
  Decrease, as one by one

  133 lines, 2 comments
• The Shame of Going Back

  When you've come to make a fortune and you haven't made your salt,
  And the reason of your failure isn't anybody's fault -

  29 lines, 1 comment
• The Roaring Days

  The night too quickly passes
  And we are growing old,

  96 lines, 2 comments
• Peter Anderson And Co.

  He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago,
  And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.',

  145 lines
• Dan, The Wreck

  Tall, and stout, and solid-looking,
  Yet a wreck;

  112 lines
• A Prouder Man Than You

  If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine,
  If you hint of higher breeding by a word or by a sign,

  24 lines
• The Cambaroora Star

  So you're writing for a paper?  Well, it's nothing very new
  To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy little screw;

  150 lines
• After All

  The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone from the bush and town;
  My spirit revives in the morning breeze,

  28 lines, 1 comment
• Marshall's Mate

  You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn —
  You could have watched the grass scorch brown had there been

  80 lines
• The Poets Of The Tomb

  The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead,
  'Tis time the people passed a law to knock 'em on the head,

  31 lines
• For'ard

  It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
  For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like shee

  96 lines
• Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers

  While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse
  The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest curse,

  19 lines, 1 comment
• The Ghost

  Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide,
  Came a ghost, and for a moment walked in silence by my side —

  56 lines
• Out Back

  The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought,
  The cheque was spent that the shearer earned,

  61 lines
• 'Sez You'

  When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,
  And across the distant timber you can SEE the flowing heat;

  40 lines
• Eurunderee [Pt 1]

  There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,
  On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.

  33 lines
• In The Day's When We Are Dead

  Listen! The end draws nearer,
      Nearer the morning—or night—

  40 lines
• The Free Selector's Daughter

  I met her on the Lachlan Side —
  A darling girl I thought her,

  38 lines
• Skeleton Flat

  HERE’S never a bough to be tossed in the breeze,
      For it’s long since the forest was green;

  34 lines
• The Good Old Concertina

  ’TWAS merry when the hut was full
      Of jolly girls and fellows.

  25 lines
• The Rush to London

  YOU’RE OFF away to London now,
          Where no one dare ignore you,

  25 lines
• When The Children Come Home

  ON A lonely selection far out in the West
  An old woman works all the day without rest,

  28 lines
• The Ballad of the Black-Sheep

  A black-sheep, from England, who worked on the run –
  Riding where the stockmen ride –

  35 lines
• Since Then

  I met Jack Ellis in town to-day --
  Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack --

  96 lines
• Jack Cornstalk

  Jack Cornstalk as a drover born,
  Jack Cornstalk gaunt and tan,

  11 lines
• Introduction – A Glimpse of Boyhood

  “Boys out there by the western creeks,
  Who hurry away from school,

  4 lines

• By me, right now

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