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  • The Tasmanian Aborigine's Lament
    The Tasmanian Aborigine's Lament And Remonstrance When In Sight Of His Native Land From Flinders Island
    Fair island of my birth, thy
    51 lines
  • The Graves of Gallipoli
    THE herdman wandering by the lonely rills
    Marks where they lie on the scarred mountain's flanks,
    41 lines
  • Ode to West Australia
    Land of Forests, fleas and flies,
    Blighted hopes and blighted eyes,
    28 lines
  • It's Only a Way He's Got (As sung by the camp fire)
    No doubt the saying's all abroad,
          And rattling through the land.
    78 lines
  • What Time the Bugle Blew
    From kauri-clad Wairoa
    Rich in her tropic charms, -
    63 lines
  • Lazy Harry's
    Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out.
    We'd whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about,
    36 lines
  • Prayer of a Soldier's Mother
    O, Mother of Perpetual Help,
    To thee I send my plea,
    12 lines
  • A Thought of Henry Kendall
    Had I gone first he surely would have writ
      Some kindly words in loving memory --
    36 lines
  • The Gallant Peter Clarke
    On Walden's Range at morning time
    The sun shone brightly down;
    68 lines, 1 comment
  • Old Ireland Lies Groaning
    Old Ireland lies groaning -
    A hand at her throat,
    37 lines
  • The Crows kept flying Up
    The crows kept flyin' up, boys,
    The crows kept flyin' up.
    9 lines
  • The Maids of the Mountains
    In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young dames
    Kate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;
    36 lines
  • The Broken - Down Squatter
    Come, Stumpy, old man, we must shift while we can;
    All our mates in the paddock are dead.
    40 lines
  • The Port Phillip Patriot
    Oh, what a wretched, loathsome, thing am I,
    Too horrible for earth, or the pure heaven,
    58 lines
  • Untitled
    The glamour gone, some scattered graves and memories dim remain:
    With his old pals across the field, he'll never trek again;
    5 lines
  • The Transvaal Contingent
    From Bluff to Cape Maria New Zealand is agreed;
    She thanks her Representatives for generous thought and deed.
    32 lines
  • Holy Dan
    It was in the Queensland drought;
    And over hill and dell,
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • The Only Land For Me (A currency Lad)
    Prate not to me of foreign strand,
    Of beauty o'er the sea -
    24 lines
  • The Golden Gullies of the Palmer
    Then roll the swag and blanket up,
    and let us haste away
    27 lines, 2 comments
  • Vision
    There shall broad streets their stately walls extend;
    Embellished villas crown the landscape scene,
    7 lines, 2 comments
  • Song of the Squatter
    The boss last night in the hut did say—
    “We start to muster at break of day;
    57 lines, 1 comment
  • The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman
    I'll sing a little ditty, which
    I trust you'll not think flat.
    50 lines
  • One of the Has-beens
    I’m one of the has-beens, a shearer I mean;
    I once was a ringer and used to shear clean;
    17 lines
  • The Bloody fields of Wheogo
    The moon rides high in a starry sky,
    And, through the midnight gloom,
    80 lines
  • Squatting up in Queensland
    Squatting up in Queensland, is a great mistake I guess;
    If you ask if I'm a squatter, I can truly answer yes,
    35 lines
  • Stringy Bark and Green Hide
    I sing of a commodity, it's one that will not fail yer,
    I mean the common oddity, the mainstay of Australia;
    30 lines
  • Louis Wittgenstein's Apple Wine
    Oh! Have you heard of the APPLE WINE!
    That out of Beer now takes the shine,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • The Skite
    Now all of us bunch we were having our lunch
    At the station one bright sunny day
    58 lines
  • The Chinaman
    What brings you here, John Chinaman,
    Why come to New South Wales?
    16 lines
  • Eureka poem
    As I lay sleeping
    on Bakery Hill
    28 lines
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