But what's the use of writing 'bush', Though editors demand it, For city folk, and farming folk, Can never understand it. They're blind to what the bushman sees The best with eyes shut tightest,...
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or heart is most wore out; I've got no spirits left to rise and smooth me achin' brow,...
Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still, While the sun goes down in glory, And away o'er lonely plain and hill Still runs the same old story: The sheoaks sigh it all day long,...
He's somewhere up in Queensland, The old folks used to say; He's somewhere up in Queensland, The people say to-day. But Somewhere (up in Queensland) That uncle used to know,...
When first I came to town, resolved To fight my way alone, No prouder foot than mine e'er trod Upon the pavement stone; But I am one in thousands, And why should I repine?...
Fight through ignorance, want, and care, Through the griefs that crush the spirit; Push your way to a fortune fair, And the smiles of the world you'll merit. Long, as a boy, for the chance to learn,...
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old; The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold. They could not read the spelling, They would not hear the call; They would not brook the telling...
By blacksoil plains burned grey with drought Where desert shrubs and grasses grow, Along the Land of Furthest Out That only Overlanders know. I dreamed I camped on river grass...
Oh, never let on to your own true love That ever you drank a drop; That ever you played in a two-up school Or slept in a sly-grog shop; That ever a bad girl nursed you round, That ever you sank so low....
Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still, While the sun goes down in glory, And away o'er lonely plain and hill Still runs the same old story: The sheoaks sigh it all day long,...
I am back from up the country, very sorry that I went, Seeking for the Southern poets' land whereon to pitch my tent; I have lost a lot of idols, which were broken on the track,...