Australian Hymn. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
For the Native Youth of the Colony.FATHER of all! a youthful raceUnknown to fortune and to fame,Presumes to celebrate thy ...
For the Native Youth of the Colony.FATHER of all! a youthful raceUnknown to fortune and to fame,Presumes to celebrate thy ...
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree,Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering firesFar from the breezes of CoolgardieBurn ghastly and blue ...
There's a bloke gone up the road just now With the sunbeams on his back;And there's never a line or care ...
I am a child of the Dreamtime PeoplePart of this land, like the gnarled gumtreeI am the river, softly singingChanting ...
Turn out, boys! — "What's up with our super. to-night? The man's mad — Two hours to daybreak I'd swear ...
Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking Strove in an election fight; And you'd think, to hear them talking, ...
Bristling Billy the porcupine,A person that nobody liked,Sinking a shaft on an ant-bed mine,Came on a burrowing lizard's line,And the ...
"Ha there! old-pig, old bear, old bristly and gingeryWombat out of the red earth peering gingerly,Was there some thud of ...
OH how the family affections combat Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at My burning soul! Neither ...
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree, Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering fires Far from the breezes of Coolgardie Burn ...
The strongest creature for his size But least equipped for combat That dwells beneath Australian skies Is Weary Will the ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
Here in my mountain home, On rugged hills and steep, I sit and watch you come, O Riverinia Sheep! You ...
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