From the Gulf (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Store cattle from Nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past,With half-a-mile of sandhill 'twixt the leaders and the last;The nags that ...
William Henry Ogilvie Poems (17 Poems)
Harry Morant (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Harry Morant was a friend I hadIn the years long passed away,A chivalrous, wild and reckless lad,A knight born out ...
His Gippsland Girl (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Now, money was scarce and work was slackAnd love to his heart Crept in,And he rode away on the Northern ...
A Gallop from the Train (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Though I can't afford a hunter -more's the pity,I love a rousing gallop like the rest!-Every morning as I travel ...
As I wandered home (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
As I wandered homeBy Hedworth CombeI heard a lone horse whinney,And saw on the hillStanding statue-stillAt the top of the ...
English Grass (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Come, horsemen all, from every fieldAnd taste this rare delight,And see what English pastures yieldTo those whose hearts beat right!Come, ...
Comrades 0′ Mine (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
If I call, will you hear me, O comrades of mine,When the sky in the East holds the grey of ...
Foxhound Puppies (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Great big lolloping lovable things!Rolling and tumbling on every lawn,Tearing at slippers and bones and wings-Wonderful loot from the ash-heap ...
Biddy, be Kind! (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Now what do you want to be playing about for,Reefing and reaching your head for the bit?This is the gentlest ...
Hands! (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Hands! Gentle Hands!When the Field at covert stands,When your four-rear-old is sweating,Foamed and fidgety and frettingAs a stray hound jumps ...
As They Come (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Right and left the leaders wheel,Seeking gap and gate,Catch his head and give him heel!Ride your country straight!Fences are by ...
Canadians (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs,With the trampling sound of twenty that re-echoes in the ...
Gone Away (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
' He's away ! '- With a quickened wild beat of the heartEvery horseman responds, riding hard for a start,While ...
Hounds going home in the Dark (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Rustle of feet in the roadside grass,Trample of horses' hoofs, and - Hark!Blast of an anxious horn! Hounds pass;Hounds going ...
Hounds! (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
There is music on disc and on wireless,Band-music, dance-tunes for the tireless,Sweet music from day unto day;But the music a ...
A Little Bit of Garden (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
We need no crown or sceptre,for now that it is spring,just a little bit of garden-and every man's a king!A ...
Colour (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
There's colour in the woodlands as far as eye can reach,Pale gold upon the elm-tree and bronze upon the beech;To ...