Book: Skyline Riders & Other Verses

• The Song of Australia

  The centuries found me to nations unknown –
  My people have crowned me and made me a throne;

  28 lines, 3 comments
• 'Fall In, My Men, Fall In'

  The short hour's halt is ended,
  The red gone from the west,

  43 lines
• 'Here Died'

  There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home,
  For he hears a voice in the future call, and he trains for

  73 lines
• Do You Think That I Do Not Know?

  They say that I never have written of love,
  As a writer of songs should do;

  61 lines, 3 comments
• The Wattle [No better Right Than I]

  I saw it in the days gone by,
  When the dead girl lay at rest,

  19 lines, 1 comment
• At The Beating Of A Drum

  Fear ye not the stormy future, for the Battle Hymn is strong,
  And the armies of Australia shall not march without a song;

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Above Lavender Bay

  ’Tis glorious morning everywhere
      Save where the alleys lie—

  51 lines, 3 comments
• As it was in the Beginning

  As it was in the beginning, so we’ll find it in the end,
  For a lover, or a brother, or a sweetheart, or a friend;

  17 lines, 3 comments
• Ben Boyd's Tower

  Ben Boyd's Tower is watching—
      Watching o’er the sea;

  46 lines
• Billy of Queensland

  “QUEENSLAND,” he heads his letters—that’s all:
      The date, and the month, and the year in brief;

  34 lines
• The Black Bordered Letter

  An’ SO ’e’s dead in London,
      An’ answered to the call,

  57 lines
• Bonnie New South Wales

  It surely cannot be too soon, and never is too late,
  It tones with all Australia’s tune to praise one’s native State,

  16 lines
• The Bonny Port of Sydney

  The lovely  Port of Sydney
      Lies laughing to the sky,

  24 lines
• The Briny Grave

  You wonder why so many would be buried in the sea,
  In this world of froth and bubble,

  44 lines
• 'Broken Axletree'

  On the Track of Grand Endeavour, on the long track out to Bourke,
  Past the Turn-Back, and past Howlong, and the pub at Sudden Jerk,

  17 lines
• A Bush Girl

  She's milking in the rain and dark,
      As did her mother in the past.

  51 lines
• Captain Von Esson of the “Sebastopol”

  Of his  beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn’t the slightest hint,
  But he comes to me as a little man, with a scrubby b

  62 lines
• Clinging Back

  When you see a man come walking down through George Street loose and free,
  Suit of saddle tweed and soft shirt, and a belt and cabba

  45 lines
• Cromwell

  They took dead Cromwell from his grave,
  And stuck his head on high;

  88 lines
• 'Everyone's Friend'

  “Nobody's enemy save his own”—
      (What shall it be in the end?)—

  12 lines, 1 comment
• The Foreign Drunk

  When you get tight in foreign lands
      You never need go slinking,

  43 lines
• Grace Jennings Carmicheal

  I hate the pen, the foolscap fair,
      The poet’s corner, and the page,

  33 lines, 1 comment
• He Had So Much Work To Do

  Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,
  Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never rest

  40 lines
• The Heart of the Swag

  Oh, the track through the scrub groweth ever more dreary,
      And lower and lower his grey head doth bow;

  24 lines
• The Horse and Cart Ferry

  It was old Jerry Brown,
      Who’d an office in town,

  87 lines
• I'd Back Again the World

  She's not like an empress,
      And crowned with raven hair,

  67 lines
• The Imported Servant

  The Blue Sky arches o’er mountain and valley,
      The scene is as fair as a scene can be,

  24 lines
• The King of our Republic

  He is coming! He is coming! without heralds, without cheers.
  He is coming! He is coming! and he’s been with us for years:

  22 lines
• The Lily and the Bee

  I Looked upon the lilies
      When the morning sun was low,

  25 lines
• The Memories They Bring

  I would never waste the hours
      Of the time that is mine own,

  33 lines
• The Men Who Made Bad Matches

  'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understand
  That you cannot call me coward now that women rule the land;

  47 lines
• Nineteen Nine

  There's  a light out there in the nearer east
      In the dawn of Nineteen Nine;

  19 lines
• The Old, Old Story and the New Order

  They proved we could not think nor see,
      They proved we could not write,

  105 lines
• 'Outside'

  I want to be lighting my pipe on deck,
      With my baggage safe below—

  15 lines
• The Patteran

  From over the leagues of ice and snow, and the miles of scorching sand;
  From back of the days of long ago, and the lonely sea and la

  18 lines
• The Rose

  We love the land when the world goes round,
  And deep, deep down in her thorny ground,

  14 lines, 3 comments
• The Scots [A Dirge]

  Black Scots and red Scots,
      Red Scots and black;

  27 lines
• Seaweed, Tussock and Fern

  Emblems of storm and danger,
      Spindrift and mountain stern,

  13 lines
• Sheoaks That Sigh When The Wind Is Still

  Why are the sheoaks forever sighing?
      (Sheoaks that sigh when the wind is still)—

  24 lines
• The Skyline Riders

  Against the light of a dawning white
      My Skyline Riders stand—

  69 lines
• The 'Soldier Birds'

  I mind the river from Mount Frome
  To Ballanshantie’s Bridge,

  104 lines
• Somewhere Up In Queensland

  He's somewhere up in Queensland,
      The old folks used to say;

  51 lines
• The Song of a Prison

  Now this is the song of a prison—a song of a gaol or jug—
  A ballad of quod or of chokey, the ultimate home of the mug.

  67 lines
• Success

  Did you see that man riding past,
  With shoulders bowed with care?

  24 lines
• To My Friends

  These are songs of the Friends I neglected—
      And the Foes, too, in part;

  5 lines
• William Street

  ’Tis William Street, the link street,
  That seems to stand alone;

  56 lines
• The World is Full of Kindness

  The World is full of kindness—
      And not the poor alone;

  34 lines, 1 comment
• Down the River

  I’VE done with joys an’ misery,
      An’ why should I repine?

  43 lines
• The King [ I ]

  AMONG the sons of Englishmen
      Full many feel like real tears,

  25 lines

• By me, right now

  Adding your comment:

Online: 299

Moderators - add ticket
Charley Noble

All online members
neva409
Roger Tyler

296 visitors