Anonymous Oceania Night Poems

  • 1.
    It's all about bold Frank Gardiner with the devil in his eye
    He said "We've work before us lads we've got to do or die
    So blacken up your faces before the dead of night
    And its over by Eugowra Rocks we'll either fall or fight"
    ...
  • 2.
    O, listen for a moment lads, and hear me tell my tale-
    how o'er the sea from England's shore I was compelled to sail.
    The jury said, "He's guilty Sir," and says the judge, says he-
    "For life Jim Jones, I'm sending you across the stormy sea;
    ...
  • 3.
    On Walden's Range at morning time
    The sun shone brightly down;
    It shone across the winding Page
    Near Murrurundi town.
    ...
  • 4.
    The moon rides high in a starry sky,
    And, through the midnight gloom,
    A faery scene of woodland green
    Her silver rays illume.
    ...
  • 5.
    In Dublin town I was brought up, in that city of great fame.
    My decent friends and parents, they will tell to you the same.
    It was for the sake of five hundred pounds I was sent across the main,
    For seven long years in New South Wales to wear a convict's chain.
    ...
  • 6.
    There's a little worn-out pony this side of Hogan's shack
    With a snip upon his nuzzle and a mark upon his back;
    Just a common little pony is what most people say,
    But then of course they've never heard what happened in his day:
    ...
  • 7.
    Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses ride
    And bold the mounted troopers who patrol the Sydney side;
    But few of them, though flash they be, can ride, and few can fight
    As Walker did, for life and death, with Ward the other night.
    ...
  • 8.
    Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear
    The news that's going round,
    On the head of bold Ned Kelly
    They have placed two thousand pound.
    ...
  • 9.
    In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young dames
    Kate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;
    These maids of the mountains are bonny bush belles,
    They ride out on horseback, togged out like young swells.
    ...
Total 9 Night Poems by Anonymous Oceania

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