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A B 'Banjo' Paterson's Poetry, by title

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  • "In re a Gentleman, One"
    We see it each day in the paper,
    And know that there's mischief in store;
    48 lines
  • 'Ave Ceasar'
    Long ago the Gladiators,
    When the call to combat came,
    34 lines
  • 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'
    The long day passes with its load of sorrow:
    In slumber deep
    28 lines
  • 'We're All Australians Now'
    Australia takes her pen in hand
    To write a line to you,
    68 lines, 8 comments
  • A Ballad of Ducks
    The railway rattled and roared and swung
    With jolting and bumping trucks.
    86 lines
  • A Bunch of Roses
    Roses ruddy and roses white,
    What are the joys that my heart discloses?
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • A Bush Christening
    On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
    And men of religion are scanty,
    48 lines, 6 comments
  • A Bush Lawyer
    When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon
    The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctial rain,
    39 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
  • A Change of Menu
    Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three,
    It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big.
    42 lines
  • A Disqualified Jockey's Story
    You see, the thing was this way -- there was me,
    That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare,
    85 lines
  • A Dog's Mistake [In Doggerel Verse]
    He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide,
    He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the weary world outside;
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • A Dream of the Melbourne Cup
    Bring me a quart of colonial beer
    And some doughy damper to make good cheer,
    103 lines, 2 comments
  • A Grain of Desert Sand
    Beneath the blue Egyptian skies,
    With ramp and roller, guide and stay,
    18 lines
  • A Job for McGuinness
    Oh, it's dreadful to think in a country like this
    With its chances for work - and enjoyment
    19 lines
  • A Motor Courtship
    Into her presence he gaily pranced,
    A very fat spark, and a bit advanced.
    49 lines
  • A Mountain Station
    I bought a run a while ago,
    On country rough and ridgy,
    52 lines
  • A Nervous Governor-General
    We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here
    To take up Lord Tennyson's mission.
    34 lines
  • A Rule of the A.J.C.
    Come all ye bold trainers attend to my song,
    It's a rule of the A.J.C.
    33 lines
  • A Singer of the Bush
    There is a waving of grass in the breeze
    And a song in the air,
    15 lines
  • A Song of the Pen
    Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft,
    Not for the people's praise;
    17 lines
  • A Triolet
    Of all the sickly forms of verse,
    Commend me to the triolet.
    8 lines
  • A Voice from the Town
    I thought, in the days of the droving,
    Of steps I might hope to retrace,
    77 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
  • Ambition and Art
    Ambition
    I am the maid of the lustrous eyes
    66 lines
  • An Answer to Various Bards
    Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in,
    Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their kin,
    70 lines, 1 comment
  • An Emu Hunt
    West of Dubbo the west begins
    The land of leisure and hope and trust,
    40 lines
  • An Evening in Dandaloo
    It was while we held our races —
    Hurdles, sprints and steplechases —
    86 lines
  • An Idyll of Dandaloo
    On Western plains, where shade is not,
    'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue,
    97 lines
  • Anthony Considine
    OUT in the wastes of the West countrie,
        Out where the white stars shine,
    52 lines
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