Over The Range (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Little bush maiden, wondering-eyed, Playing alone in the creek-bed dry, In the small green flat on every side Walled in ...
Little bush maiden, wondering-eyed, Playing alone in the creek-bed dry, In the small green flat on every side Walled in ...
Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone, And there's some that breeds the brindle ...
As I pondered very weary o'er a volume long and dreary -- For the plot was void of interest; 'twas ...
The sun strikes down with a blinding glare; The skies are blue and the plains are wide, The saltbush plains ...
To the voters of Glen Innes 'twas O'Sullivan that went, To secure the country vote for Mister Hay. So he ...
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
Another search for Leichhardt's tomb, Though fifty years have fled Since Leichhardt vanished in the gloom, Our one Illustrious Dead! ...
This is the story of G.R.D., Who went on a mission across the sea To borrow some money for you ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep, When fancies come and go To vex a man in his soothing ...
The drought is down on field and flock, The river-bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before ...
Now is the law of the Overland that all in the West obey -- A man must cover with travelling ...
The roving breezes come and go On Kiley's Run, The sleepy river murmurs low, And far away one dimly sees ...
Trumpets of the Lancer Corps Sound a loud reveille; Sound it over Sydney shore, Send the message far and wide ...
Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee; To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it's up ...
There came a whisper down the Bland between the dawn and dark, Above the tossing of the pines, above the ...
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
"HALT! Who goes there?" The sentry's call Rose on the midnight air Above the noises of the camp, The roll ...
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three, It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big. "I am fed to ...
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
"He ought to be home," said the old man, "without there's something amiss. He only went to the Two-mile -- ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound, Without a care or trouble on your mind, And ...
With never a sound of trumpet, With never a flag displayed, The last of the old campaigners Lined up for ...
'TWAS to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise ...
Under the spreading deficit, The Fitzroy Smithy stands; The smith, a spendthrift man is he, With too much on his ...
Here in my mountain home, On rugged hills and steep, I sit and watch you come, O Riverinia Sheep! You ...
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