The Travelling Post Office (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The roving breezes come and go, the reed-beds sweep and sway, The sleepy river murmers low,and loiters on its way, ...
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Andrew Barton Paterson Poems (214 Poems)
The Man Who Was Away (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
The Old Tin Hat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
In the good old days when the Army's ways were simple and unrefined, With a stock to keep their chins ...
The Federal Bus Conductor and the Old Lady (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
Shearing at Castlereagh (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So ...
The Quest Eternal (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
O west of all that a man holds dear, on the edge of the Kingdom Come, Where carriage is far ...
The Mylora Elopement (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
By the winding Wollondilly where the weeping willows weep, And the shepherd, with his billy, half awake and half asleep, ...
Last Week (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Oh, the new-chum went to the backblock run, But he should have gone there last week. He tramped ten miles ...
The Ghost of the Murderer’s Hut (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
My horse had been lamed in the foot In the rocks at the back of the run, So I camped ...
Typographical (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Editor wrote his political screed In ink that was fainter and fainter; He rose to the call of his ...
The Corner Man (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep, When fancies come and go To vex a man in his soothing ...
The Winds Message (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
There came a whisper down the Bland between the dawn and dark, Above the tossing of the pines, above the ...
With French to Kimberley (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
El Mahdi to the Australian Troops (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, That o'er the ocean many a weary day Have tossed; and now ...
Not On It (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The new chum's polo pony was the smartest pony yet -- The owner backed it for the Cup for all ...
Cassidy’s Epitaph (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Here lies a bloke who's just gone West, A Number One Australian; He took his gun and did his best ...
How M’Ginnis went missing (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Let us cease our idle chatter, Let the tears bedew our cheek, For a man from Tallangatta Has been missing ...
The Matrimonial Stakes (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I wooed her with a steeplechase, I won her with a fall, I made her heartstrings quiver on the flat ...
“In re a Gentleman, One” (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We see it each day in the paper, And know that there's mischief in store; That some unprofessional caper Has ...
The Premier and the Socialist (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Premier and the Socialist Were walking through the State: They wept to see the Savings Bank Such funds accumulate. ...
The Sausage Candidate-A Tale of the Elections (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Our fathers, brave men were and strong, And whisky was their daily liquor; They used to move the world along ...
Song of the Wheat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have sung the song of the droving days, Of the march of the travelling sheep; By silent stages and ...
In Defence of the Bush (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went, And you're cursing all the business in a ...
Saltbush Bill’s Second Flight (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
The Rule of the A.J.C. (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Come all ye bold trainers attend to my song, It's a rule of the A.J.C. You mustn't train ponies, for ...
That Half-Crown Sweep (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The run of Billabong-go-dry Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap; Its waterhole and tank supply Is excellent -- upon the ...
Right in Front of the Army (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
"Where 'ave you been this week or more, 'Aven't seen you about the war'? Thought perhaps you was at the ...
Song of the Future (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
An Evening in Dandaloo (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It was while we held our races -- Hurdles, sprints and steplechases -- Up in Dandaloo, That a crowd of ...
T.y.s.o.n. (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Across the Queensland border line The mobs of cattle go; They travel down in sun and shine On dusty stage, ...