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Dedication: To the Men of Australia, who have proved for all time their unconquerable spirit and unswerving loyalty to the right, I dedicate these songs of the misty land they fought for and the sunny land that bred them.
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Many of the poems in this volume were published in British journals; the title poem first appeared in London Punch under the title 'The bravest thing God ever made'. Miller's Australian Literature From its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 65 notes that this volume reprinted many poems from The Overlander and Other Verses (1913). H.M. Green's A History of Australian Literature Pure and Applied (1961): 372-373 considers Ogilvie's best Australian ballads to have appeared in this 1916 work.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson
, 1916 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Australiani"The skies that arched his land were blue", single work poetry war literature (p. 3-4)
- Sunny Countryi"I dreamed of Sunny Country last night, a golden dream", single work poetry (p. 7)
- The Bushmen i"God, the day He fashioned them,", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- The Overlanderi"I knew them on the road: red, roan and white,", single work poetry (p. 10-15)
- The Riding Cameli"I was Junda's riding camel. I went in front of the train.", single work poetry (p. 16-20)
- A Leaf from Macquariei"A gumleaf from Warren, all withered and brown,", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- My Australian Spursi"Old and worn my Bushland spurs", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- The Outlawi"Our realm was the fenceless ranges. We fed in the blue grass swamps;", single work poetry (p. 25-29)
- The Pack Horsei"My hoofs were hid by the dew-wet clover,", single work poetry (p. 30-33)
- The White Ibisi"When the fierce Barwon from the border brings", single work poetry (p. 34-35)
- Cicadasi"When the Bush is still as death,", single work poetry (p. 36-37)
- Sydneyi"The green Bush mantles your shoulder,", single work poetry (p. 38-39)
- A Bush Nighti"I remember the tilt of the deep canvas chairs, and the men sitting idle,", single work poetry (p. 40-41)
- The Australian Fleeti"Long and long has she slumbered, till many a mouth denied", single work poetry (p. 42-43)
- Black Wingsi"Sextons of the Overland! Buriers of the dead,", single work poetry (p. 44-45)
- The Team Bullocki"The sunrays scorched like furnace fires;", single work poetry (p. 46-49)
- Black Trackersi"Swart bloodhounds of the fenceless West,", single work poetry (p. 50-51)
- Coo-eei"Foam that feeds the Leeuwin,", single work poetry (p. 52-53)
- Comradesi"Do the shearers still go riding up the Warrego to work,", single work poetry (p. 54-55)
- The Bushi"I hear you slighted often and maligned", single work poetry (p. 56)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Desert Worlds
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 84-105) 'In late 1914, twenty thousand mostly young Australian men ventured forth from the driest inhabited continent on earth to cross the ocean in a convoy spread over twenty-five kilometres in length and measuring twenty kilometres in width. The greatest mass exodus from the Antipodes which included a further ten thousand New Zealanders, this was the first and largest of many similar voyages over the next four years. The Australians might have considered themselves to be desert people. “The sand has his own / Wave and motion,” wrote S. Musgrove in “Australia Deserta” in the first issue of Southerly in 1939, “Rages the bed / Of the stony ocean” (14). Yet they preferred to identify as colonial sons returning to the motherland of pastoral England before heading to war. Of their own place, “They call her a young country but they lie,” wrote A. D. Hope in his much debated poem “Australia” which he began writing around the time of the publication of the inaugural issue—and to which he contributed an essay—“She is the last of lands, the emptiest, / ... the womb within is dry” (Hope).'(Introduction)
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A New Ogilvie Volume
1916
single work
review
— Appears in: The Lone Hand , 1 November vol. 6 no. 6 1916; (p. 341)
— Review of The Australian and Other Verses 1916 selected work poetry
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A New Ogilvie Volume
1916
single work
review
— Appears in: The Lone Hand , 1 November vol. 6 no. 6 1916; (p. 341)
— Review of The Australian and Other Verses 1916 selected work poetry -
Desert Worlds
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 84-105) 'In late 1914, twenty thousand mostly young Australian men ventured forth from the driest inhabited continent on earth to cross the ocean in a convoy spread over twenty-five kilometres in length and measuring twenty kilometres in width. The greatest mass exodus from the Antipodes which included a further ten thousand New Zealanders, this was the first and largest of many similar voyages over the next four years. The Australians might have considered themselves to be desert people. “The sand has his own / Wave and motion,” wrote S. Musgrove in “Australia Deserta” in the first issue of Southerly in 1939, “Rages the bed / Of the stony ocean” (14). Yet they preferred to identify as colonial sons returning to the motherland of pastoral England before heading to war. Of their own place, “They call her a young country but they lie,” wrote A. D. Hope in his much debated poem “Australia” which he began writing around the time of the publication of the inaugural issue—and to which he contributed an essay—“She is the last of lands, the emptiest, / ... the womb within is dry” (Hope).'(Introduction)
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