Trooper Campbell (Henry Lawson Poem)
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest ...
We're marching along, we're gath'ring strong' We place on our right reliance, We fling in the air, for all who ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
They have eaten their fill at your tables spread, Like friends since the land was won; And they rise with ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone from the bush and town; My spirit revives in the morning breeze, ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
It is amazing, while I lay in bed, I had the lines roaring through my head like locusts on the ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
What's in a song John (or is it 'Knuckles'), what's in a song about an unemployed, suicidal bum, caught in ...
'Twas Saltbush Bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way to town; He crossed them over the Hard Times ...
The London lights are far abeam Behind a bank of cloud, Along the shore the gaslights gleam, The gale is ...
The strongest creature for his size But least equipped for combat That dwells beneath Australian skies Is Weary Will the ...
Here lies a bloke who's just gone West, A Number One Australian; He took his gun and did his best ...
Another search for Leichhardt's tomb, Though fifty years have fled Since Leichhardt vanished in the gloom, Our one Illustrious Dead! ...
This is the story of G.R.D., Who went on a mission across the sea To borrow some money for you ...
As I pondered very weary o'er a volume long and dreary -- For the plot was void of interest; 'twas ...
The Honorable Ardleigh Wyse Was every fisherman's despair; He caught his fish on floating flies, In fact he caught them ...
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we ...
We've travelled per Joe Gardiner, a humping of our swag In the country of the Gidgee and Belar. We've swum ...
Scene: Federal Political Arena A darkened cave. In the middle, a cauldron, boiling. Enter the three witches. 1ST WITCH: Thrice ...
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
I This is the sunburnt bushman who Came down from Goondiwindi, Q. II This is the Push from Waterloo That ...
The grey gull sat on a floating whale, On a floating whale sat he, And he told his tale of ...
Under the spreading deficit, The Fitzroy Smithy stands; The smith, a spendthrift man is he, With too much on his ...
Thrice welcome home to Hawick, Mr J. Graham Henderson, For by your Scotch tweeds a great honour you have won; ...
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