Bold Jack Donohue (3) (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Come all you gallant bushrangers who gallop o'er the plains Refuse to live in slavery, or wear the convict chains. ...
Come all you gallant bushrangers who gallop o'er the plains Refuse to live in slavery, or wear the convict chains. ...
Throughout Australian History no tongue or pen can tell Of such preconcerted treachery — there is no parallel ...
IOnce below a time,When my pinned-around-the-spiritCut-to-measure flesh bit,Suit for a serial sumOn the first of each hardship,My paid-for slaved-for own ...
'Tis of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Doolan was his name,Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine.He ...
You doubtless read the papers,And as men of observation,Of course you watch the progressOf Chinese immigration—For thousands of these pigtail ...
Still I've the picture of him -- Flash Phil Galloway; In a shining dog-cart driving down the road;Spanking ponies dashing ...
There's a happy little valley on the Eumerella shore, Where I've lingered many happy hours away,On my little ...
Come all Australia's sons to me — A hero has been slainAnd cowardly butchered in his sleep ...
The night is dark and stormy, and the sky is clouded o'er; Our horses we will mount and ...
When first I left Old England's shore,Such yarns as we were told,As how folks in AustraliaCould pick up lumps of ...
You often have been told of regiments brave and bold,But we are the bravest in the land;We're called the Tag-rag ...
Hark! Hark! the dogs are barking, I can no longer stay;The boys have all gone shearing, so I heard the ...
Why in this sunny land of goldRich soil and wealth containing,Should we from day to day beholdThe unemployed complaining? What ...
A Dealer, bewitched by gain-promising dreamsSettled down near my Station, to trade with my Teams,And to sell to, my men ...
My country! I am sore at heart for thee! An in mine ear, like a storm-heralding breeze,A voice against ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
The stranger came from Narromine and made his little joke-- "They say we folks in Narromine are narrow-minded folk. But ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
Now is the law of the Overland that all in the West obey -- A man must cover with travelling ...
Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone, And there's some that breeds the brindle ...
Come all ye lads of the droving days, ye gentlemen unafraid, I'll tell you all of the greatest trip that ...
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