The Kelly Gang (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hearThe news that's going round,On the head of bold Ned KellyThey have placed two ...
Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hearThe news that's going round,On the head of bold Ned KellyThey have placed two ...
The moon rides high in a starry sky,And, through the midnight gloom,A faery scene of woodland greenHer silver rays illume.Dark ...
Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses rideAnd bold the mounted troopers who patrol the Sydney side;But few ...
I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better, But now I have somebody's luck and my ...
No doubt the saying's all abroad, And rattling through the land.We hear it at the mangle, too, ...
Lonely and sadly one night in November I laid down my weary head in search of reposeOn my ...
Come now, ye sighing washers all, Join in my doleful lay,Mourn for the times none can recall, ...
The boss last night in the hut did say —"We start to muster at break of day;So be up first ...
Now all of us bunch we were having our lunch At the station one bright sunny day When a stranger ...
I'm a broken-hearted miner, who loves his cup to drain,Which often-times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.Roaming ...
On Walden's Range at morning timeThe sun shone brightly down;It shone across the winding PageNear Murrurundi town.It glittered o'er the ...
Oh! don't you remember Black Alice, Sam Holt -Black Alice so dusky and dark -That Warrego gin with the straw ...
From kauri-clad WairoaRich in her tropic charms, -Otago's rugged stations, -And Canterbury's farms;From where the West Coast minersToil for the ...
Throughout Australian History no tongue or pen can tell Of such preconcerted treachery — there is no parallel ...
The Currency Lads may fill their glasses,And drink to the health of the Currency Lasses;But the lass I adore, the ...
From Bluff to Cape Maria New Zealand is agreed;She thanks her Representatives for generous thought and deed.She turns with joy ...
In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young damesKate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;These maids of the ...
There's a happy little valley on the Eumerella shore, Where I've lingered many happy hours away,On my little ...
The night is dark and stormy, and the sky is clouded o'er; Our horses we will mount and ...
The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail,And the poor old horse stood whisking his tail,For there never was seen ...
A bright sun and a loosened rein, A whip whose pealing soundRings forth amid the forest trees ...
The struggle for freedom has ended they say,The days of fatigue and Remorse,But our hearts one and all are in ...
The sun peers o'er yon wooded ridge and thro' the forest dense,Its golden edge o'er the mountain ledge looks down ...
He wore an old blue shirt the night that first we met,An old and tattered cabbage-tree concealed his locks of ...
Now Jordan's land of promise is the burden of my song,Perhaps you've heard him lecture, and blow about it strong;To ...
It's all about bold Frank Gardiner with the devil in his eye He said "We've work before us lads we've ...
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