Poems

Foxhound Puppies Great big lolloping lovable things! Rolling and tumbling on every lawn, Tearing at slippers and bones and wings- Wonderful loot from the ash-heap drawn: […]

From the Gulf Store cattle from Nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past, With half-a-mile of sandhill ‘twixt the leaders and the last; The nags that move […]

Gone Away ‘ He’s away ! ‘- With a quickened wild beat of the heart Every horseman responds, riding hard for a start, While back on […]

Hands! Hands! Gentle Hands! When the Field at covert stands, When your four-rear-old is sweating, Foamed and fidgety and fretting As a stray hound jumps the […]

Harry Morant Harry Morant was a friend I had In the years long passed away, A chivalrous, wild and reckless lad, A knight born out of […]

His Epitaph On a little old bush racecourse at the back of No Man’s Land, Where the mulgas mark the furlongs and a dead log marks […]

His Gippsland Girl Now, money was scarce and work was slack And love to his heart Crept in, And he rode away on the Northern track […]

Hounds going home in the Dark Rustle of feet in the roadside grass, Trample of horses’ hoofs, and – Hark! Blast of an anxious horn! Hounds […]

Hounds! There is music on disc and on wireless, Band-music, dance-tunes for the tireless, Sweet music from day unto day; But the music a man will […]

How The Fire Queen Crossed The Swamp The flood was down in the Wilga swamps, three feet over the mud, And the teamsters camped on the […]