Poetry Codex

Victorian

Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

1864–1941

Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson (1864–1941) was an Australian bush poet, solicitor and journalist, born near Orange, New South Wales, who reported the Boer War as a correspondent.

He published The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) and Rio Grande's Last Race (1902), and wrote the words of 'Waltzing Matilda'.

Poems (136)

  1. The Daylight is Dying
  2. Clancy of the Overflow
  3. Black Swans
  4. The Travelling Post Office
  5. The Old Australian Ways
  6. By the Grey Gulf-Water
  7. Prelude
  8. The Man from Snowy River
  9. Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve
  10. Conroy's Gap
  11. Our New Horse
  12. An Idyll of Dandaloo
  13. The Geebung Polo Club
  14. Saltbush Bill
  15. A Mountain Station
  16. Been There Before
  17. The Man Who Was Away
  18. The Man from Ironbark
  19. The Open Steeplechase
  20. The Amateur Rider
  21. On Kiley's Run
  22. Frying Pan's Theology
  23. The Two Devines
  24. In the Droving Days
  25. Lost
  26. Over the Range
  27. Only a Jockey
  28. How M'Ginnis Went Missing
  29. A Voice from the Town
  30. A Bunch of Roses
  31. The All Right 'Un
  32. The Boss of the 'Admiral Lynch'
  33. A Bushman's Song
  34. How Gilbert Died
  35. The Flying Gang
  36. Shearing at Castlereagh
  37. The Wind's Message
  38. Johnson's Antidote
  39. Ambition and Art
  40. In Defence of the Bush
  41. Last Week
  42. Those Names
  43. A Bush Christening
  44. How the Favourite Beat Us
  45. The Great Calamity
  46. Come-by-Chance
  47. Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill
  48. Jim Carew
  49. The Swagman's Rest
  50. Rio Grande's Last Race
  51. With the Cattle
  52. The First Surveyor
  53. Mulga Bill's Bicycle
  54. The Pearl Diver
  55. The City of Dreadful Thirst
  56. Saltbush Bill's Gamecock
  57. Hay and Hell and Booligal
  58. A Walgett Episode
  59. Father Riley's Horse
  60. The Scotch Engineer
  61. Song of the Future
  62. Anthony Considine
  63. Song of the Artesian Water
  64. A Disqualified Jockey's Story
  65. The Road to Gundagai
  66. Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
  67. Hard Luck
  68. Song of the Federation
  69. The Ballad of the 'Calliope'
  70. Do They Know
  71. The Passing of Gundagai
  72. The Wargeilah Handicap
  73. Any Other Time
  74. The Last Trump
  75. Tar and Feathers
  76. It's Grand
  77. Out of Sight
  78. The Road to Old Man's Town
  79. The Old Timer's Steeplechase
  80. In the Stable
  81. He Giveth His Beloved Sleep
  82. Driver Smith
  83. There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
  84. On the Trek
  85. The Last Parade
  86. With French to Kimberley
  87. Johnny Boer
  88. What Have the Cavalry Done
  89. Right in the Front of the Army
  90. That V.C.
  91. Fed Up
  92. Jock!
  93. Santa Claus
  94. Song of the Pen
  95. Song of the Wheat
  96. Brumby's Run
  97. Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs
  98. The Reverend Mullineux
  99. The Wisdom of Hafiz
  100. Saltbush Bill, J.P.
  101. The Riders in the Stand
  102. Waltzing Matilda
  103. An Answer to Various Bards
  104. T.Y.S.O.N.
  105. As Long as your Eyes are Blue
  106. Bottle-O!
  107. The Story of Mongrel Grey
  108. Gilhooley's Estate
  109. The Road to Hogan's Gap
  110. A Singer of the Bush
  111. "Shouting" for a Camel
  112. The Lost Drink
  113. Mulligan's Mare
  114. The Matrimonial Stakes
  115. The Mountain Squatter
  116. Pioneers
  117. Santa Claus in the Bush
  118. In Re a Gentleman, One
  119. The Melting of the Snow
  120. A Dream of the Melbourne Cup
  121. The Gundaroo Bullock
  122. Lay of the Motor-Car
  123. The Corner Man
  124. When Dacey Rode the Mule
  125. The Mylora Elopement
  126. The Pannikin Poet
  127. Not on It
  128. The Protest
  129. The Scapegoat
  130. An Evening in Dandaloo
  131. A Ballad of Ducks
  132. Tommy Corrigan
  133. The Maori's Wool
  134. The Angel's Kiss
  135. Sunrise on the Coast
  136. The Reveille

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