Book: Poems of Banjo Paterson (illustrated by Pro Hart)

This book is the 2nd in a series of Australian Poems illustrated by Australian artists, con tains a selection of the most well-known and best-loved of Paterson's poems including many well known favourites. Pro Hart's painting reflect the moods of the poems and adds a charm to the book. First published in 1974.

• The Man from Snowy River

  There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
  That the colt from old Regret had got away,

  115 lines, 24 comments
• Clancy of the Overflow

  I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
  Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,

  38 lines, 6 comments
• Waltzing Matilda

  Oh there once was a swagman camped in the  billabong,
    Under the shade of a Coolabah tree;

  38 lines, 6 comments
• The Man from Ironbark

  It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town,
  He wandered over street and park, he wandered up and down.

  53 lines, 6 comments
• A Bush Christening

  On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
  And men of religion are scanty,

  48 lines, 6 comments
• In the Droving Days

  "Only a pound," said the auctioneer,
  "Only a pound; and I'm standing here

  100 lines, 8 comments
• 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 Geebung Polo Club

  It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub,
  That they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club.

  50 lines, 2 comments
• Been There Before

  There came a stranger to Walgett town,
  To Walgett town when the sun was low,

  25 lines, 1 comment
• When Dacey rode the Mule

  'Twas to a small, up-country town,
      When we were boys at school,

  65 lines
• Song of the Wheat

  We have sung the song of the droving days,
    Of the march of the travelling sheep;

  70 lines
• Only a Jockey

  Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light,
  Out on the track where the night shades still lurk,

  40 lines, 1 comment
• Lost

  "He ought to be home," said the old man, "without there's something amiss.
  He only went to the Two-mile -- he ought to be back by this.

  36 lines, 9 comments
• In Defence of the Bush

  So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went,
  And you're cursing all the business in a bitter discontent;

  40 lines
• Shearing at Castlereagh

  The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot,
  There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot,

  24 lines
• How Gilbert Died

  There's never a stone at the sleeper's head,
  There's never a fence beside,

  90 lines
• Saltbush Bill

  Now is the law of the Overland that all in the West obey --
  A man must cover with travelling sheep a six-mile stage a day;

  58 lines
• Johnson’s Antidote

  Down along the Snakebite River, where the overlanders camp,
  Where the serpents are in millions, all of the most deadly stamp;

  76 lines
• The Swagman's Rest

  We buried old Bob where the bloodwoods wave
  At the foot of the Eaglehawk;

  60 lines
• 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
• 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
• 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 Road to Hogan's Gap

  Now look, you see, it’s this way like,
      You cross the broken bridge

  131 lines

• By me, right now

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