Billy Barlow in Australia (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
When I was at home I was down on my luck,And I earned a poor living by drawing a truck;But ...
When I was at home I was down on my luck,And I earned a poor living by drawing a truck;But ...
High noon, and not a cloud in the skyTo break this blinding sun.Well, I've half the day before me still,And ...
Och ! my name's Pat Malone, and I'm from Tipperary. Sure, I don't know it now, I'm so ...
All you on emigration bent,With home and England ill-content,Come, listen to my sad lament, All about the bush ...
The moon rides high in a starry sky,And, through the midnight gloom,A faery scene of woodland greenHer silver rays illume.Dark ...
I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better, But now I have somebody's luck and my ...
This is the tale of NortonWho vowed a vow, by zounds,To catch the varlet GardinerAnd win a thousand pounds. "Come ...
Come, all ye lads an' list to me,That's left your homes an' crossed the sea,To try your fortune, bound or ...
The Tasmanian Aborigine's Lament And Remonstrance When In Sight Of His Native Land From Flinders IslandFair island of my birth, ...
'Tis of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Doolan was his name,Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine.He ...
Loitering in a country town, 'cos I had some time to spareI went into an antique shop, to see what ...
A bright sun and a loosened rein, A whip whose pealing soundRings forth amid the forest trees ...
He wore an old blue shirt the night that first we met,An old and tattered cabbage-tree concealed his locks of ...
Ye sons of industry, to you I belong,And to you I would dedicate a verse or a song.Rejoicing o'er the ...
The Irishman loves his fair Colleen,No doubt she is witty and pretty,But in Ireland I have never been,So can't judge ...
Land of Forests, fleas and flies,Blighted hopes and blighted eyes,Art thou hell in earth's disguise,Westralia?Art thou some volcanic blastBy volcanoes ...
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