The Travelling Post Office (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The roving breezes come and go, the reed-beds sweep and sway, The sleepy river murmers low,and loiters on its way, ...
The roving breezes come and go, the reed-beds sweep and sway, The sleepy river murmers low,and loiters on its way, ...
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...
Let us cease our idle chatter, Let the tears bedew our cheek, For a man from Tallangatta Has been missing ...
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
There's nothing here sublime, But just a roving rhyme, Run off to pass the time, With nought titanic in. The ...
The daylight is dying Away in the west, The wild birds are flying In silence to rest; In leafage and ...
"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss -- ...
On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is ...
The long day passes with its load of sorrow: In slumber deep I lay me down to rest until tomorrow ...
There's never a stone at the sleeper's head, There's never a fence beside, And the wandering stock on the grave ...
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- Youth's memories that once ...
Ambition I am the maid of the lustrous eyes Of great fruition, Whom the sons of men that are over-wise ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound, Without a care or trouble on your mind, And ...
The daylight is dying Away in the west, The wild birds are flying in silence to rest; In leafage and ...
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