A Day’s Ride (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses rideAnd bold the mounted troopers who patrol the Sydney side;But few ...
Poems about jockey (20 Poems)
The Bookmaker’s Daughter 1934 (Billy Bennett Poems)
Nell was a bookmaker's daughter;On the day she was born there was trouble: In addition to Nell came a sister ...
Bert (C J Dennis Poems)
Did you ever meet Bert? 'E's all over the town, In offices, shops an' in various places, Cocky an' ...
The Ballad of Ben Hall’s Gang (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Come all ye wild colonials And listen to my tale;A story of bushrangers' deeds I will to you unveil.'Tis of ...
What I Have Seen #3 (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I saw two youths: both were fair in the face,They had set out foot to foot in life's race;But one ...
A Rule of the A.J.C. (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
Come all ye bold trainers attend to my song,It's a rule of the A.J.C.You mustn't train ponies, for that's very ...
Broadcaster’ (Alden Nowlan Poems)
I used to broadcast at nightalone in a radio stationbut I was never good at itpartly because my voice wasn't ...
Melbourne Sonnets:XII. At Flemington (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
DEGRADE yourself to this with feverish drink,Sustained by baudy tales of urban wit;This gay environment is surely fit.Invidious females, decked ...
The Grog-an’Grumble Steeplechase (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
546. Song-Jockie’s taen the parting Kiss (Robert Burns Poems)
JOCKEY'S taen the parting kiss, O'er the mountains he is gane, And with him is a' my bliss, Nought but ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
The Progress of Poetry (Jonathan Swift Poems)
The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble, Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble; Grown fat with Corn and Sitting still, ...
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
How The Favourite Beat Us (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
"Aye," said the boozer, "I tell you it's true, sir, I once was a punter with plenty of pelf, But ...
The Rule of the A.J.C. (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Come all ye bold trainers attend to my song, It's a rule of the A.J.C. You mustn't train ponies, for ...
Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
Wisdom of Hafiz: the Philosopher Takes to Racing (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
My son, if you go to the races to battle with Ikey and Mo, Remember, it's seldom the pigeon can ...
Tommy Corrigan (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace -- Not one in fifty has the ...
An Idyll of Dandaloo (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is ...
The All Right Un (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
He came from "further out", That land of fear and drought And dust and gravel. He got a touch of ...