Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Book: Rio Grande's Last Race and other Verses

1 - 41 of 41
  • Mulga Bill's Bicycle
    'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze;
    He turned away the good old horse that served him many days;
    40 lines, 2 comments
  • The Old Australian Ways
    The London lights are far abeam
    Behind a bank of cloud,
    78 lines, 1 comment
  • Santa Claus
    "HALT! Who goes there?” The sentry’s call
    Rose on the midnight air
    40 lines
  • On the Trek
    Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day,
    With sun above and silent veldt below;
    25 lines
  • Tar and Feathers
    Oh! the circus swooped down
    On the Narrabri town,
    42 lines
  • Do They Know?
    Do they know? At the turn to the straight
    Where the favourites fail,
    24 lines
  • Song of the Future
    'Tis strange that in a land so strong
    So strong and bold in mighty youth,
    177 lines
  • It's Grand
    It's grand to be a squatter
    And sit upon a post,
    53 lines
  • Hay and Hell and Booligal
    "You come and see me, boys," he said;
    "You'll find a welcome and a bed
    60 lines
  • Jock
    There's a soldier that's been doing of his share
    In the fighting up and down and round about.
    35 lines
  • Out of Sight
    They held a polo meeting at a little country town,
    And all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown.
    16 lines
  • The Scotch Engineer
    With eyes that searched in the dark,
    Peering along the line,
    84 lines, 1 comment
  • Song of the Artesian Water
    Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought;
    But we're sick of prayers and Providence -- we're going to do without;
    54 lines
  • Anthony Considine
    OUT in the wastes of the West countrie,
        Out where the white stars shine,
    52 lines
  • By the Grey Gulf-Water
    Far to the Northward there lies a land,
    A wonderful land that the winds blow over,
    37 lines
  • 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'
    The long day passes with its load of sorrow:
    In slumber deep
    28 lines
  • The Ballad of the Calliope
    By the far Samoan shore,
    Where the league-long rollers pour
    102 lines
  • The Last Trump
    "You led the trump," the old man said
    With fury in his eye,
    40 lines
  • Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
    The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large,
    That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with Saltbush Bill in
    97 lines
  • Right in Front of the Army
    "Where 'ave you been this week or more,
    'Aven't seen you about the war'?
    43 lines
  • A Disqualified Jockey's Story
    You see, the thing was this way -- there was me,
    That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare,
    85 lines
  • The Wargeilah Handicap
    Wargeilah town is very small,
    There's no cathedral nor a club,
    162 lines
  • Saltbush Bill's Gamecock
    'Twas Saltbush Bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way to town;
    He crossed them over the Hard Times Run, and he came to the Take 'Em Down;
    67 lines
  • The Passing of Gundagai
    "I'll introduce a friend!" he said,
    "And if you've got a vacant pen
    94 lines
  • The First Surveyor [His Widow Speaks]
    "The opening of the railway line! — the Governor and all!
    With flags and banners down the street, a banquet and a ball.
    50 lines
  • Any Other Time
    All of us play our very best game—
    Any other time.
    40 lines
  • Driver Smith
    'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight;
    He thought of the Transvaal all the day, he thought of it all the night
    68 lines, 3 comments
  • Hard Luck
    I left the course, and by my side
    There walked a ruined tout —
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • Father Riley's Horse
    'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog
    By the troopers of the upper Murray side,
    125 lines
  • In the Stable
    What! you don't like him; well, maybe — we all have our fancies, of course:
    Brumby to look at, you reckon? Well, no; he's a th
    78 lines
  • City of Dreadful Thirst
    The stranger came from Narromine and made his little joke—
    "They say we folks in Narromine are narrow-minded folk.
    58 lines
  • The Last Parade
    With never a sound of trumpet,
    With never a flag displayed,
    52 lines, 2 comments
  • There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
    When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound,
    Without a care or trouble on your mind,
    25 lines
  • The Old Timer's Steeplechase
    The sheep were shorn and the wool went down
    At the time of our local racing;
    144 lines
  • Johnny Boer
    Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run,
    And no man knows his courage till he stands before a gun.
    38 lines
  • The Pearl Diver
    Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee,
    Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the sea,
    74 lines
  • That V.C.
    'Twas in the days of front attack;
    This glorious truth we'd yet to learn it --
    36 lines
  • The Road to Gundagai
    The mountain road goes up and down
    From Gundagai to Tumut Town.
    44 lines, 7 comments
  • Song of the Federation
    As the nations sat together, grimly waiting —
    The fierce and ancient nations battle-scarred —
    56 lines
  • A Walgett Episode
    The sun strikes down with a blinding glare;
    The skies are blue and the plains are wide,
    54 lines, 1 comment
  • Book Contents: The Animals Noah Forgot:Banjo Paterson
    ‘The Animals Noah Forgot’ A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson
    A wonderful look at some of the strange, wonderful animals in Australia - images a
    24 lines, 4 comments
1 - 41 of 41

Add a comment

    : Comment:

1 - 41 of 41