Featherstonhaugh (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Brookong station lay half-asleepDozed in the waning western glare('Twas before the run had stocked with sheepAnd only cattle depastured there)As ...
Brookong station lay half-asleepDozed in the waning western glare('Twas before the run had stocked with sheepAnd only cattle depastured there)As ...
Sal was a sobstuff sisterOn the pictures she'd shed tears galoreHer tears fell in torrents, and the band at the ...
Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses rideAnd bold the mounted troopers who patrol the Sydney side;But few ...
There are strange things told of spirits bold,And the trail to Sante Fe,There is many a tale of the Chisholm ...
'Tis of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Doolan was his name,Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine.He ...
He gleaned all the gossip and he gathered all the news, Mad Matt, the carrier, delivering the grub;He knew ...
IThis is the sunburnt bushman whoCame down from Goondiwindi, Q.IIThis is the Push from WaterlooThat spotted the sunburnt bushman whoCame ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
I. Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone, And there's some that breeds the brindle ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
I This is the sunburnt bushman who Came down from Goondiwindi, Q. II This is the Push from Waterloo That ...
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