The Tomb Of Lt John Learmonth, AIF (John Streeter Manifold Poems)
This is not sorrow, this is work:I build a cairn of words over a silent man,My friend John Learmonth whom ...
This is not sorrow, this is work:I build a cairn of words over a silent man,My friend John Learmonth whom ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
EARTH which has known so many passagesOf April air, so many marriagesOf strange and lovely atoms breeding light,Never may find ...
Nor can the foremost of the sons of menEscape my ribald and licentious penSwiftYou prisoners of New South Wales,Who frequent ...
Composed at Stroud A.A. Co. Establishment StationNew South Wales.Composed and written October 23rd day, Anno 1839You prisoners of New South ...
In an old bark hut on a mountainside In a spot that was lone and drear A woman whose heart ...
All you on emigration bent,With home and England ill-content,Come, listen to my sad lament, All about the bush ...
The moon rides high in a starry sky,And, through the midnight gloom,A faery scene of woodland greenHer silver rays illume.Dark ...
When Morgan crossed the Murray to Peechelba and doomA sombre silent shadow rode with him through the gloom.The wild things ...
Come all you gallant bushrangers who gallop o'er the plains Refuse to live in slavery, or wear the convict chains. ...
John Gilbert was a bushrangerOf terrible renownFor sticking lots of people upAnd shooting others down.John Gilbert said unto his pals,'Although ...
'Tis of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Doolan was his name,Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine.He ...
In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young damesKate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;These maids of the ...
A life that is free as the bandit's of old,When Rome was the prey of the warriers boldWho knew how ...
They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise; May Carney looked up in the bushranger's eyes: `Oh! ...
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