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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DROVERS Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WILDFLOWER BY THE WAY, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun-rays burned like brands a-fire Last Line: "the wildflowers by the way!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Desire; Drovers; Women ANDY'S GONE WITH CATTLE, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our andy's gone with cattle now Last Line: God grant 'twill bring us andy. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers BALLAD OF THE DROVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony ridges / across the rolling plain Last Line: All sounding eerily. Subject(s): Death; Drovers; Floods; Homecoming; Dead, The CATTLE RUSH ON A NIGHT CAMP, by CHARLES MACALISTER Poem Text First Line: Look out on your left,' said mckenzie, 'the cattle are off like a streak! Last Line: It was plain that the cattle conceded we had beaten them bad in the rush. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers FROM THE GULF, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Store cattle from nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past Last Line: What's ours to fare, by god they'll share! For we've been droving too! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DROVERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through heat and cold, and shower and sun Last Line: And rest alone in striving. Subject(s): Drovers THE FALLEN TREE HOTEL, by WILL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lonesome line of traffic Last Line: Of the fallen tree hotel. Alternate Author Name(s): Prooshan, The Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drovers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE GRASS STEALERS, by J. MURRAY ALLISON Poem Text First Line: In australia where the cattle tracks Last Line: Or some other watercourse. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Grass THE LAST MUSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply Last Line: And I woke to the red burned acres, and knew that I had but dreamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Dreams; Drovers; God; Greed; Nightmares; Avarice; Cupidity THE PHANTOM MOB, by W. H. FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Yes; I'm harry black - mad harry - and I often hear 'em say Last Line: Those pikers from the back paroo—I'm looking for 'em yet! Alternate Author Name(s): Page, The Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Ghosts; Supernatural 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 |
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