William Henry Ogilvie
Who is William Henry Ogilvie
Will H. Ogilvie (21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion. He was also known as Will Ogilvie, by the pen names including 'Glenrowan' and the lesser 'Swingle-Bar', and by his initials, WHO.
Ogilvie was part of the trio of Australian bush poets, with Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) and Henry Lawson (1867–1922). His Fair girls and gray horses (1896) was considered second only to Banjo Paterson's Man from Snowy River (1895). A reader ballot in 1914 saw him placing seventh of Australia's twelve most favourite poets.Wearing the title of 'Universally acclaimed in Australia as a bush balladist of the "Outback"'...
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William Henry Ogilvie Poems
- The Opening Run
The rain-sodden grass in the ditches is dying,
The berries are red to the crest of the thorn ;
Coronet-deep where the beech leaves are lying
The hunters stand tense to the twang of the horn ;
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- Biddy, Be Kind!
Now what do you want to be playing about for,
Reefing and reaching your head for the bit?
This is the gentlest of canters you're out for,
And neither yourself nor your rider is fit ;
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- The Call
Gold and green the elm leaves lean and interlace,
All the coloured woodlands are calling to the Chase.
Dew is on the stubble field, ruddy grows the thorn,
All the withered meadowland is listening for the horn.
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- Running On!
The dusk is down on the river meadows,
The moon is climbing above the fir,
The lane is crowded with creeping shadows,
The gorse is only a distant blur;
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- The Filling Of The Swamps
Hurrah for the storm-clouds sweeping!
Hurrah for the driving rain!
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- Mflibra: 1907 scarce first edition bound by ramage - rainbows and witches, fantastical poems by william henry ogilvie.
- Mflibra: 1907 scarce first edition bound by ramage - rainbows and witches, fantastical poems by william henry ogilvie.
- Icebergsmelting: happy birthday william henry ogilvie
- Matthewjdowd: happy bday scottish/australian poet/horseman/jackaroo william henry ogilvie b.1869.
“the hooves of the horse! oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.”
- Northtrenton: happy birthday to william henry ogilvie (d. 1963), aubrey beardsley (d. 1898), richard girulatis (d. 1963), claude grahame-white (d. 1959), chandler egan (d. 1936), edouard fabre (d. 1939), ruth manning-sanders (d. 1988) and james paul moody (d. 1912).
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