About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: 1890 poems, 1891 poems, 1892 poems, 1893 poems, 1894 poems, 1895 poems, 1896 poems, 1897 poems, 1898 poems, 1899 poems, The Hound of Heaven, Waltzing Matilda, Gunga Din, The Absent-Minded Beggar, The White Man's Burden, Danny Deever, 1895 in poetry, 1892 in poetry, 1899 in poetry, 1893 in poetry, Mulga Bill's Bicycle, 1898 in poetry, 1894 in poetry, 1896 in poetry, 1890 in poetry, 1897 in poetry, The Man from Snowy River, 1891 in poetry, Antigonish, Neutral Tones, Mi ultimo adios, Hay and Hell and Booligal, Hymn Before Action, Dieu, The Man With the Hoe, The Nasobame, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, To An Athlete Dying Young, White Stains, Un Coup de Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard, The Ballad of the "Clampherdown," Mandalay, Richard Cory, Saint Peter, The Geebung Polo Club, Is My Team Ploughing, Freedom on the Wallaby, Up the Country, Wessex Poems and Other Verses, The Fact of the Matter, Banjo, of the Overflow, The City Bushman, Toute la Lyre, The Overflow of Clancy, Ode to Ethiopia, The Bell Buoy, T.Y.S.O.N., The Widow at Windsor. Excerpt: "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad, a country folk song, and has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia." The title is Australian slang for travelling by foot with one's goods in a "Matilda" (bag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or swagman, making a drink of tea at a bush camp and capturing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker for the theft (a crime punishable by hanging), the worker commits suicide by drowning himself in the nearby watering hole, and then goes on to haunt the site. The original lyrics were written in 1895 by poet and nationalist Banjo Paterson. It was first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the son...
