Come, Sing Australian Songs to Me!
COME, Little One, and sing to me A song our big wide land to bless,…
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Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again
MAY a fading fancy hover round a gladness that is over? May a dreamer in…
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Honeymooning from the Country
TO the rooms where I am dining in the glaring city’s day Come the happy…
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Said the White-Haired Priest
SAID the white-haired priest, “So the boy has come, And the old, old dreams are…
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Wisha, What is the Matter With Jim?
“WISHA, what is the matter with Jim, I dunno? Is he right in the mind…
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The Wiree’s Song
THE wiree sang that Christmas Day, A rippling, limpid, liquid lay In clump and cover…
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Tell Me, What’s a Girl to Do?
TELL me, what’s a girl to do When the gossoons court and cozen? Some have…
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A Stranger in the Church
‘TWAS Callagan who jerked the thumb – A mute, interrogating thumb – That set the…
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Laughing Mary
WITH cheeks that paled the rosy morn She bounded o’er the heather, And romped with…
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Ownerless
HE comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming And limelights are trained on…
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The Parting Rosary
THEY have brought the news, my darlin’, that I’ve waited for so long. Faith, ’twas…
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When Old Man Carey Died
A night of wind and driving rain, No light on land or sky- The sharp…
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The Careys
THEIR new house stood just off the road. A fine big brick two-storey, All gabled,…
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St. Patrick’s Day
‘TIS the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when…
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At Casey’s After Mass
THERE’S a weather-beaten sign-post where the track turns towards the west, Through the tall, white,…
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The Altar-Boy
NOW McEvoy was altar-boy As long as I remember; He was, bedad, a crabbéd lad,…
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Tangmalangaloo
THE bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime, And galvanized the old bush…
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The Presbyt’ry Dog
NOW of all the old sinners in mischief immersed, From the ages of Gog and…
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