The Loafers’ Club (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
A club there is established here, whose name they say is Legion;From Melbourne to the Billabong they're known in every ...
Poems about melbourne (21 Poems)
It Isn’t Cricket (C J Dennis Poems)
Hello, old cobber. Well, what's on your mind? You're lookin' awful gloomy and mysteriousDone in your dough? The horses been ...
With My Swag All On My Shoulder (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
When first I left Old England's shore,Such yarns as we were told,As how folks in AustraliaCould pick up lumps of ...
Important People (C J Dennis Poems)
The success of the Scout movement throughout the whole world has been amply proven by the present triumphant gathering in ...
Lotsertime (C J Dennis Poems)
Aw, chuck the mail bags over there, It's great to have 'em brought by air; But, now they're ...
A Capstan Chantey (Edwin James Brady Poems)
WHAT did the captain say to the cook When the ship went down the river? "I've left my girl in ...
Aunt Evangeline Approves (Incomplete) (C J Dennis Poems)
My Aunt Evangeline has come To visit Melbourne town,Garbed for its Glad Centenary In frill and festal gown.And Aunties says ...
Cup Couplets (C J Dennis Poems)
Out of great wisdom, long stored up,I would write me a rune of the Melbourne Cup.Out of experience, grave and ...
A Ballade Of Home (Enid Derham Poems)
LET others prate of Greece and Rome, And towns where they may never be,The muse should wander nearer home. ...
Louis Wittgenstein (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Oh! Have you heard of the APPLE WINE!That out of Beer now takes the shine,If you have not then now's ...
Country Roads ~ Pretty Sally (C J Dennis Poems)
The diggers came from Bendigo, From Albury the drovers,From where the Goulburn waters flowCame bearded teamsters travelling slow. ...
The Outcasts (Francis W L Adams Poems)
(Melbourne)HERE to the parks they come,The scourings of the town,Like weary wounded animalsSeeking where to lie them down.Brothers, let us ...
Eureka (Henry Lawson Poem)
Roll up, Eureka's heroes, on that grand Old Rush afar, For Lalor's gone to join you in the big camp ...
The Song of the Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Five Bells (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time, the flood that does not flow. Between the ...
A Dream of the Melbourne Cup (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Bring me a quart of colonial beer And some doughy damper to make good cheer, I must make a heavy ...
The Wargeilah Handicap (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
A Nervous Governor-General (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here To take up Lord Tennyson's mission. 'Tis pleasant to find ...
Comete (Les Murray Poems)
Uphill in Melbourne on a beautiful day a woman is walking ahead of her hair. Like teak oiled soft to ...
The Wreck of the Steamer London (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...