The Australiad – (A poem for children.) (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,And "sire," he said, "I bring thy ships in ...
I.Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose,With care his sweet person adorning,He put on his Sunday clothes.II.He drew on a ...
I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is,Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the ...
Now Pat Ahearne, of IngleburnUpon the Castlereagh,Was flush of cash and very 'flash'As shearer-persons say.At Yankee grab his luck was ...
Awake, arise, the hour is come,For rows and revolutions;There's no receipt like pike and drumFor crazy constitutions.Close, close the shop! ...
Baby, O baby, fain you are for bed,Magpie to mopoke busy as the bee;The little red calf's in the snug ...
Oh, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now;Cato died for his country, so didst thou:He perish'd rather than see Rome en(Lord George ...
Posterity will ne'er surveyA nobler grave than this:Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:Stop, traveler-- (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days"O, Festus Dies Hominis!"-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large,That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with Saltbush ...
I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is,Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the ...
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day -- Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack -- Ten years ago, from ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So ...
The roving breezes come and go, the reed-beds sweep and sway, The sleepy river murmers low,and loiters on its way, ...
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
I'M travellin' down the Castlereagh, and I'm a station hand, I'm handy with the ropin' pole, I'm handy with the ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
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