The Dukite Snake (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A West Australian Bushman's StoryWell, mate, you've asked about a fellowYou met to-day, in a black-and-yellowChain-gang suit, with a peddler's ...
A West Australian Bushman's StoryWell, mate, you've asked about a fellowYou met to-day, in a black-and-yellowChain-gang suit, with a peddler's ...
Far back in the days when the blacks used to ramble In long single file 'neath the evergreen tree,The wool-teams in ...
Tek a cool night, good an' cleah, Skiff o' snow upon de groun'; Jes' 'bout fall-time o' de yeah W'en de leaves is ...
Our tank stood on a crazy stand,Bare to the burning sun,White hot as glares the desert sand,And dismal to the ...
The girls all like to see the bluets in the laneAnd the saucy johnny-jump-ups in the meadow,But, we boys, we ...
STEP wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle,Dis ain' no time fu' to pottah an' piddle;Fu' Christmas is comin', ...
In Possum Land the nights are fair,The streams are fresh and clear;No dust is in the moonlit air;No traffic jars ...
At Kangaroo Gully in 'Fifty-twoThe rush and the scramble was reckless and rough;'Three ounces a dish and the lead running ...
In the neolithic age of our Australia, long ago,There dwelt a wise old chieftain, as you probably don't know;His royal ...
The rafters are open to sun, moon, and star, Thistles and nettles grow high in the bar -- The chimneys ...
Now the tent poles are rotting, the camp fires are dead, And the possums may gambol in trees overhead; I ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
The boys had come back from the races All silent and down on their luck; They'd backed 'em, straight out ...
Our trees are aspens, but people mistake them for birches; they think of us as characters in a Russian novel, ...
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