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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis christmas, and the north wind blows
Last Line: My heart is always in the spot which was my childhood's home.
Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; England; Homesickness; Nativity, The; English


A CLEARING, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had come to australia
Subject(s): Australia


A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer
Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares


A MIDSUMMER'S NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST, by CHARLES HARPUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a sound disturbs the air
Last Line: Musing thus of quietness.
Subject(s): Australia; Forests; Nature; Woods


A SONG FOR THE HOT WINDS, by HARRIET MILLER DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh for a breath o' the moorlands
Last Line: A whiff o' her caller air!
Subject(s): Australia; Home; Patriotism


AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL, by ETHEL CASTILLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has a beauty of her own
Last Line: Does she disdain.
Subject(s): Australia; Women


ARAKOON, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, in storms, the triple-headed
Last Line: Works against the tide in vain.
Subject(s): New South Wales, Australia; Sea; Ocean


ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set
Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me.
Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks


AT EUROMA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They built his mound of the rough, red ground
Last Line: And unvexed by the lordship of dreams.
Subject(s): Graves; New South Wales, Australia; Tombs; Tombstones


AUSTRALIA, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Insula pacificis in fluctibus ilice multa
Last Line: Non auctumnalen maturis frugibus imbrem
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by BARBARA CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is september first and the first day
Last Line: What we pass and hold; what mercy between us
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey
Last Line: The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes %which is called civilization over there
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by AGNES NEALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the things that have been done
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by BERNARD O'DOWD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last sea-thing dredged by sailor time from space
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by DOWELL O'REILLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What can we give in return
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH                       
First Line: In the southern hemisphere lies australia
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA, by STAN SANVEL RUBIN                       
First Line: The river was a floor of shadows, our plunging raft
Last Line: What are we taking with us when we take our shadow tours? %maybe the art to remember what we leave b
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIA IN LONDON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the battle over
Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free.
Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty


AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done
Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free.
Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty


AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate
Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


AUSTRALIA; JANUARY 1, 1901. MAY 9, 1901, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She rose amid the nations, tall and fair
Last Line: Circled the great world round.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Liberty


AUSTRALIAN, by ARTHUR HENRY ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once more this autumn-earth is ripe
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIAN DECADES, by ANDREW SANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out across the corrugated roofs
Last Line: Stubborn, though: trucks in relay wheeze and groan
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not as the songs of other lands
Subject(s): Australia


AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The short sweet purple twilight dreams
Last Line: That stirs it from cicalas shrill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Dreams; Dusk; Oranges; Nightmares


AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: IN THE FERN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The feathery fern-trees make a screen
Last Line: Of lime-tree in an english june.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Trees


AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: MID-NOON IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a fibry fern-tree bough
Last Line: Breathes 'mid the green fern-spaces round
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Australia; January


BACHIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lives are hid; our trails are strange
Last Line: All 'fore the woman came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Australia; Cowboys


BALLADE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair islands of the silver fleece
Subject(s): Australia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies


BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still
Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares


BOTANY BAY, by JOHN FREETH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away with all whimsical bubbles of air
Last Line: Be sent to the bottom of botany bay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Fortune


BOUNDARY RIDER, by THOMAS HENEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bridle-reins hang loose in the hold ...
Subject(s): Australia


BREAKING BILLOWS AT SORRENTO, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky of whirling flakes of foam
Last Line: In thunder the sea's boundless might.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Sea; Sky; Ocean


BUSH, by JAMES LISTER CUTHBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give us from dawn to dark
Subject(s): Australia


BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings
Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods


CANADA TO AUSTRALIA, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only through the heart but through the limbs
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G.
Subject(s): Australia


CHRIST CHILD DAY IN AUSTRALIA, by ETHEL S. TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A copper conclave of a sky
Subject(s): Australia; England


CHRISTMAS EVE: AUSTRALIA, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows hot. English and foreign birds
Last Line: Curse lightly and pronounce your serious name
Subject(s): Australia; Christmas


CIRCLING HEARTHS, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My countrymen, though we are young as yet
Subject(s): Australia


CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Last Line: But I doubt he'd suit the office, clancy, of the overflow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Letters


FAREWELL TO ANZAC, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay
Last Line: Oh, we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!)
Subject(s): World War I - Australia


FORBY SUTHERLAND; A STORY OF BOTANY BAY, A.D. 1770, by GEORGE GORDON MCCRAE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lane of elms in june; the air
Last Line: "the meek, blue-eyed ""forget-me-not!"
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770)


GOLD MINING IN AUSTRALIA, 1895, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You face the wind blowing
Last Line: There are more ways of drowning %than in water
Subject(s): Australia; Gold Mines And Miners


H.M.S. GLORY AT SYDNEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But I remember, I remember sydney
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Australia; Travel


HOMESICK, by DOROTHY FRANCES MCCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sick of fog and yellow gloom
Subject(s): Australia


IMPROVED ENOCH ARDEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Philip ray and enoch arden
Last Line: "by next mail to alfred tenny / son m. P., isle of wight"
Subject(s): Australia;new Zealand


IN GLEN WAVERLEY, MELBOURNE, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over high street road, where rush-hour
Last Line: Where they landed, fearing the worst
Subject(s): Australia; Traffic


JUSTICE (UNCIVILISED AND CIVILISED), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ling-tso ah sin; on murderer's flat
Last Line: For thee, though not for us, ah sin!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Justice; Murder; Sin


KOALA, by ALAN ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How should I describe you-eternal
Subject(s): Australia; Koalas; Travel


LINES TO A FRIEND IN AUSTRALIA, by LOUISA A. HORSFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We think of thee, when smiling spring
Last Line: Shall waft thee to the lovely vale, %where smiles thine english home
Subject(s): Absence; Australia


MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: MEMORY, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thoughts flutter like butterfly wings
Last Line: With cooling fingers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia; Memory


MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Change is a sweet and lovely sprite who brushes with a velvet pall
Last Line: Beauty of decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Change; Melbourne, Australia; Time


MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE GARDENS, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wealth of the city hardens
Last Line: Of breathing spirit! Surely, these will abide!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melbourne, Australia


MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE TOWERS AT EVENING, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The juggernauting trams and the prolonged
Last Line: A pearly lighthouse over its own hull-tearing crags!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia


MONSTER DIAMOND; TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF W. AUSTRALIA, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll have it, I tell you! Curse you - there
Subject(s): Australia; Penal Colonies


MY COUNTRY, by DOROTHEA MACKELLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The love of field and coppice
Subject(s): Australia


NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song
Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind


ON AUSTRALIAN HILLS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, outward turning on her path in space
Last Line: But trust the guidance of the one who knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Australia; Mountains


ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW, by LES A. MURRAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winters at home brought wind
Last Line: And another child
Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan
Subject(s): Australia; Snow; Winter


OUT IN AUSTRALIA, by MATTHIAS BARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, bright's the sun in your hand, and fair the flowers to see
Subject(s): Australia


QUEENSLANDERS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lean brown lords of the brisbane beaches
Last Line: These are the swords of thy soul's desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): World War I - Australia


SELF-PORTRAIT IN EAST MELBOURNE FLAT, by PETER BAKOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My telephone wants a better job
Last Line: Say, about the size %of a mouse or a matchbox
Subject(s): Australia; Portraits; Self


SEPTEMBER IN AUSTRALIA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest
Last Line: With thy voices for ever!
Subject(s): Australia; September


SHEA-OAK TREES ON A STORMY DAY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er sandy tracts the shea-oak trees
Last Line: A death song o'er the mournful plain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Death; Oak Trees; Dead, The


SONG OF THE AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the honour of australia, our mother
Last Line: Kneel thee down, new made sister - let us pray
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Honor; Roads; Singing And Singers


SONG OF THE SQUATTER, by ROBERT LOWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The commissioner bet me a pony - I won
Last Line: Anything that you please, but graze lands of the crown!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sherbrooke, Viscount
Subject(s): Australia; Ranch Life


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 1, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the painter who shall paint for you
Last Line: "turned seaward, ""after many a wistful look!"
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 2, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were but two, and we were forty! Yet
Last Line: With faithful blood, as pure as any ever shed.
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 3, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaotic crags are huddled east and west
Last Line: By all the sacred past 'tis sacred ground.
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. VICTORIA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the boulder'd majesty
Last Line: Dreamlike steals over each dim range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SYDNEY HARBOUR CONSIDERED AS A MATISSE, by JOHN FORBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: One slip & you're back, via whitely & ken
Last Line: Crushed on sandstone piers? Maybe just
Subject(s): Harbors; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Sydney, Australia


TALBINGO, by KENNETH SLESSOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Rivers; Australia


THE BELL-BIRD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stillness of the austral noon
Last Line: Save 'mid these silences alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Birds


THE BIRTH OF AUSTRALIA, by PERCY RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not 'mid the thunder of the battle guns
Last Line: The only nation from the womb of peace!
Subject(s): Australia


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear
Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven.
Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend
Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace.
Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun
Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory.
Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away
Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together.
Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling


THE COROBBOREE (MIDNIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the forest-depths the tribe
Last Line: The silent stars above the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bedtime


THE DOMINION, 1883 [OF AUSTRALIA] (A FORECAST), by JAMES BRUNTON STEPHENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She is not yet, but he whose ear
Last Line: Our bounds shall be the girdling seas alone.
Subject(s): Australia


THE FLAME-TREE (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For miles the illawarra range
Last Line: That wander not nor reach up higher.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Pacific Ocean


THE FLYING MOUSE (NEW SOUTH WALES -- MOONLIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eucalyptus-blooms are sweet
Last Line: Flits bat-like where the white gums rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Eucalyptus Trees


THE LAST ABORIGINAL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see him sit, wild-eyed alone
Last Line: Then sinks back on his unknown bier.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Fear; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime


THE MUSE OF AUSTRALIA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts
Last Line: And a hand with the harp of australia!
Subject(s): Australia


THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain road goes up and down
Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE ROCK-LILY (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The amber-tinted level sands
Last Line: The glory of these austral plains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Lilies


THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen
Last Line: To seek the happy isles!
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si


THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, while orion, flaming south
Last Line: On holy paths -- on sacred ways and sweet.
Subject(s): Australia; Exhibitions; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659); World's Fairs; Expositions


THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roving breezes come and go, the reed - beds sweep and sway
Last Line: My letter chases conroy's sheep along the castlereagh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Drovers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE VICTORIA MARKETS RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds are bleak, stars are bright
Last Line: Apples, ripen for the dray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Markets; Victoria, Australia; Supermarkets


THE WOOD-SWALLOWS (SUNRISE), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lightning-stricken giant gum
Last Line: Dart joyous midst the sunrise-glow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Swallows


WALTZING MATILDA, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! There once was a swagman camped in a billabong
Last Line: Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): National Song - Australia