A B 'Banjo' Paterson's Poetry, by first line

• Fed Up

  I ain't a timid man at all, I'm just as brave as most,
  I'll take my chance in open fight and die beside my post;

  26 lines
• The Pannikin Poet

  There's nothing here sublime,
  But just a roving rhyme,

  48 lines
• A Bushman's Song

  I’M travellin’ down the Castlereagh, and I’m a station hand,
  I’m handy with the ropin’ pole, I’m handy with the brand,

  40 lines
• The Last Parade

  With never a sound of trumpet,
  With never a flag displayed,

  52 lines, 2 comments
• The Ballad of G. R. Dibbs

  This is the story of G.R.D.,
  Who went on a mission across the sea

  29 lines
• Behind the Scenes

  The actor struts his little hour,
  Between the limelight and the band;

  24 lines
• The All Right 'Un

  He came from "further out",
  That land of fear and drought

  59 lines
• The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut

  My horse had been lamed in the foot
  In the rocks at the back of the run,

  36 lines
• A Triolet

  Of all the sickly forms of verse,
  Commend me to the triolet.

  8 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
• A Bunch of Roses

  Roses ruddy and roses white,
  What are the joys that my heart discloses?

  25 lines, 2 comments
• Ambition and Art

  Ambition
  I am the maid of the lustrous eyes

  66 lines
• How Gilbert Died

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

  90 lines
• Tommy Corrigan

  You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace --
  Not one in fifty has the nerve to ride a steeplechase.

  30 lines, 2 comments
• The Man Who Was Away

  The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow,
  She told the lawyer man her tale in tones of deepest woe.

  24 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
• The Two Devines

  It was shearing time at the Myall Lake,
  And then rose the sound through the livelong day

  49 lines
• The Daylight is Dying

  The daylight is dying
  Away in the west,

  52 lines, 1 comment
• Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill

  This is the place where they all were bred;
  Some of the rafters are standing still;

  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
• 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 Scorcher and the Howling Swell

  The Scorcher and the Howling Swell were riding through the land;
  They wept like anything to see the hills on every hand;

  18 lines
• The Ballad of Cockatoo Dock

  Of all the docks upon the blue
  There was no dockyard, old or new,

  42 lines
• The Plains

  A land, as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow
  Or the plains are blackened and burnt and bare, where the false mirages go

  11 lines
• Our New Horse

  The boys had come back from the races
  All silent and down on their luck;

  146 lines
• The Hypnotist

  A man once read with mind surprised
  Of the way that people were "hypnotised";

  106 lines
• The Maori Pig Market

  In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold
  The billows are ceaselessly combing,

  25 lines, 1 comment
• Conroy's Gap

  This was the way of it, don't you know --
  Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep,

  144 lines
• Song of the Future

  'Tis strange that in a land so strong
  So strong and bold in mighty youth,

  177 lines
• Who is Kator Anyhow?

  Why, oh why was Kater lifted
  From the darkness, where he drifted

  24 lines

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