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| Searching... Subject: GOLD MINES & MINERS Matches Found: 19 49', by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poet's Biography First Line: We have worked our claims Last Line: We shall strike it up in the stars Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners A BUSH LEGEND, by MARIE E. J. PITT Poem Text First Line: Back in the heart of the gippsland hills Last Line: Listens and makes no sign. Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Legends; Dead, The A BUSH SECRET, by BERNARD MCELHILL Poem Text First Line: The sun had set, and weary walked Last Line: A secret of the bush. Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A WILD GOOSE CHASE IN THE WHIPSTICK SCRUB, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Old jack gave us a wild goose chase Last Line: That ever formed a team. Subject(s): Fools; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Idiots; Hunters A YARN OF LAMBING FLAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Call that a yarn!' said old tom pugh Last Line: His fix on lambing flat.' Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners;practical Jokes;story-telling; Pranks BILL BROWN, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I met bill brown on the prospect track Last Line: Astride of a camel cow. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOB HOLLY, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men a 'pipe' had in a 'show' Last Line: And none have seen him from that date. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Exiles; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment CATCHING THE COACH, by ALFRED T. CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: At kangaroo gully in 'fifty-two Last Line: "to post this here letter for nell by the mail." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, A. T. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Hunters EUREKA, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: O hunters for gold Last Line: "may read ""eureka!" Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Sympathy; Empathy GOLD!, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Gold! 'mid the north's magnetic hush Last Line: A finer ore than e'er was minted! Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners HARRY DALE AND OLAF CUBB, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men I knew met in a pub Last Line: And out of it by coach that night. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Escapes; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Fugitives IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART Poem Text First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in." Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OLD FOSSICKER JACK, by J. M. MARSHE Poem Text First Line: Tis a desolate picture, whose colour is dead Last Line: Came here, and has left but—old fossicker jack. Alternate Author Name(s): M., J. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Memory; Nostalgia SEVEN HONEST MEN, by MARTIN BENSON Poem Text First Line: Their faith in one another it was wonderfully great Last Line: They panned-off half a pennyweight, those seven honest men. Alternate Author Name(s): Sun, Ben Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment THE ADAMS RIVER BUSH, by M. J. O'REILLY Poem Text First Line: We left good old coolgardie Last Line: With the adams river rush. Alternate Author Name(s): Mick, Mulga Subject(s): Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DAYS OF '84, by RANDOLPH BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: Let's go back on to the roper, where they say they've struck the stuff Last Line: We were men, and we dealt straight with all in the days of '84. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Nostalgia THE NEW ARGONAUTS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the good ship sails! Last Line: O cursed love of gold! Subject(s): Fortune; Gold Mines & Miners; Greed; Sailing & Sailors; Avarice; Cupidity; Seamen; Sails THE RESCUE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: There's a sudden, fierce clang of the knocker, then the sound of a voice in the Last Line: Fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Mothers & Sons |
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