Full Orchestra (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
MY words are the poor footmen of your pride,Of what you cry, you trumpets, each to eachWith mouths of air; ...
MY words are the poor footmen of your pride,Of what you cry, you trumpets, each to eachWith mouths of air; ...
'When I was a kiddy and away out-back,'Said the man with the salt-bush lingo.'My dogs, two cattle-dogs, grey and black,They ...
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat, And to bait him was our chiefest form of ...
Half-lost in film of faintest lawn,A single star in armour whiteUpon the dreamy heights of dawnGuards dim frontier of the ...
Come, let us sing with a right good ring (Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)Of any old, sunny ...
Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With a ...
A strapping young stockman lay dying,His saddle supporting his head;His two mates around him were crying,As he rose on his ...
The sun peers o'er yon wooded ridge and thro' the forest dense,Its golden edge o'er the mountain ledge looks down ...
AUSTRALIA'S Wealth? Has she not mines of gold,Tin, copper, iron; silver, gems untold?Coal, whose dark lustre makes our dwellings bright,The ...
We found one evening, in the scrub,a road the timber-getters made,a winding, dim, mysterious track,and we raced down it, half ...
Just fifty years ago, this land in slumber lay;The native chased the wild dingo, which roamed from day to dayO'er ...
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
Now the tent poles are rotting, the camp fires are dead, And the possums may gambol in trees overhead; I ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
There's nothing here sublime, But just a roving rhyme, Run off to pass the time, With nought titanic in. The ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss -- ...
'Twas the dingo pup to his dam that said, "It's time I worked for my daily bread. Out in the ...
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
Out where the grey streams glide, Sullen and deep and slow, And the alligators slide From the mud to the ...
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