The Old Bark Hut (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
In an old bark hut on a mountainside In a spot that was lone and drear A woman whose heart ...
In an old bark hut on a mountainside In a spot that was lone and drear A woman whose heart ...
Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hearThe news that's going round,On the head of bold Ned KellyThey have placed two ...
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 ...
My name is old Jack Palmer, I'm a man of olden days,And so I wish to sing a ...
All you on emigration bent,With home and England ill-content,Come, listen to my sad lament, All about the bush ...
That's his saddle on the tie-beam, And them's his spurs up thereOn the wall-plate over yonder — ...
The moon rides high in a starry sky,And, through the midnight gloom,A faery scene of woodland greenHer silver rays illume.Dark ...
There was an agile sailor ladWho longed to know the bushSo with his swag and billy-canHe said he'd make a ...
Now, all intent to emigrate,Come listen to the doleful fate,Which did befall to me of late,When I went to the ...
Oh ! the shearing is all over, And the wool is coming down,And I mean to get a ...
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, ...
There's a trade you all know well — It's bringing cattle over:I'll tell you all about the time ...
The boss last night in the hut did say —"We start to muster at break of day;So be up first ...
Oh, what a wretched, loathsome, thing am I,Too horrible for earth, or the pure heaven,Or the bright stars, or the ...
This is the tale of NortonWho vowed a vow, by zounds,To catch the varlet GardinerAnd win a thousand pounds. "Come ...
I have come to tell the glorious news you'll all be glad to hear,Of the pleasant alterations that are taking ...
There's a little worn-out pony this side of Hogan's shack With a snip upon his nuzzle and a mark upon ...
On Walden's Range at morning timeThe sun shone brightly down;It shone across the winding PageNear Murrurundi town.It glittered o'er the ...
Come, all ye lads an' list to me,That's left your homes an' crossed the sea,To try your fortune, bound or ...
Come! all ye lads of loyalty, and listen to my tale;A story of bushranging days, I ...
We often hear men boast about the land which gave them birth,And each one thinks his native land the fairest ...
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 ...
Oh! don't you remember Black Alice, Sam Holt -Black Alice so dusky and dark -That Warrego gin with the straw ...
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