By Flood and Field 2 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,They have bridled a hundred black.-Old Ballad.'He turned in his saddle, now follow who ...
They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,They have bridled a hundred black.-Old Ballad.'He turned in his saddle, now follow who ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
Ther's things i'plenty aw despise;-- False pride an wild ambition;Tho' ivvery man should strive to rise, An better his condition.Aw hate a ...
The Devil take the cook, that old grey-bearded fellow,Yo ho, haul away!Who feeds us odds and ends and biscuits whiskered ...
' He's away ! '- With a quickened wild beat of the heartEvery horseman responds, riding hard for a start,While ...
The Bus horse does not work all day, For if he did he'd waste away. He does his work and then is ...
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
1. HAWKSHAW 3rd Trinity. 5. KINGLAKE 3rd Trinity. 2. PIGOTT Corpus. ...
Smoking lately in my "Funny," as I'm wont, beneath the bank, Listening to Cam's rippling murmurs thro' the ...
At Kangaroo Gully in 'Fifty-twoThe rush and the scramble was reckless and rough;'Three ounces a dish and the lead running ...
I see yet, bright as summer beams, The spot where all my childhood wander'd,And where, in rich Arabian dreams, I ...
CLIPPER ship, the Pride of Commerce, loading now with hides and wool, Advertised to sail on Monday -- stevedore must ...
Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat, And to bait him was our chiefest form of ...
Said Austria,--"You murderous Serb, You the peace of all Europe disturb; Get down on your ...
There's a happy little valley on the Eumerella shore, Where I've lingered many happy hours away,On my little ...
What's prayin'? Prayin's wantin' things, And wishin' we had less or much, And after people's prayed for 'em, They've got ...
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
"Let's make him a sailor," said Father, "And he will adventure the sea." "A soldier," said Mother, "is rather What ...
The boys had come back from the races All silent and down on their luck; They'd backed 'em, straight out ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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