Our Jack (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
D'ye ken our Jack with his note so gay,D'ye ken our Jack at the break of day,D'ye ken our Jack ...
D'ye ken our Jack with his note so gay,D'ye ken our Jack at the break of day,D'ye ken our Jack ...
When will some new Australian poet riseTo all the height and glory of his theme?Nor on the sombre side for ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- Seeking for the Southern poets' land ...
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day -- Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- Ten years ago, from ...
Now the tent poles are rotting, the camp fires are dead, And the possums may gambol in trees overhead; I ...
A day of seeming innocence, A glorious sun and sky, And, just above my picket fence, Black Bonnet passing by. ...
With eyes that are narrowed to pierce To the awful horizons of land, Through the blaze of hot days, and ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began, And there was sorrow round the place, for Denver was a ...
They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise; May Carney looked up in the bushranger's eyes: `Oh! ...
Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn, And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; ...
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- Seeking for the Southern poets' land ...
A cloud of dust on the long white road, And the teams go creeping on Inch by inch with the ...
How 4CHINIT, HOWBZR, it's like they know me yes please, another cup of COFFEE I LOVE DEBEAN On a WINDEE ...
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
It was a man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up ...
I This is the sunburnt bushman who Came down from Goondiwindi, Q. II This is the Push from Waterloo That ...
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