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Barcroft Boake
March 26, 1866 – ? May 10, 1892
Poetry Listing
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Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Bushman’s Love - A Fragment | You say we bushmen cannot love, | | 41 | 1071 | | 2: | A Memory | Adown the grass-grown paths we strayed, | | 48 | 1238 | | 3: | A Song | I’ve a kiss from a warmer lover | | 42 | 1279 | | 4: | A Song From A Sandhill | Drip, drip, drip! It tinkles on the fly | | 32 | 1343 | | 5: | A Valentine | A Valentine The Bree was up; the floods were out | | 49 | 1382 | | 6: | A Vision Out West | Far reaching down's a solid sea sunk everlastingly to rest, | | 86 | 1392 | | 7: | A Wayside Queen | She was born in the season of fire, | | 90 | 1459 | | 8: | An Allegory | The fight was over, and the battle won | | 14 | 878 | | 9: | An Easter Rhyme | Easter Monday in the city, | | 60 | 902 | | 10: | At Devlin’s Siding | What made the porter stare so hard? what made the porter stare | | 24 | 852 | | 11: | At The “J.C.” | None ever knew his name, Honoured, or one of shame, | | 49 | 925 | | 12: | Desiree | Will she spring with a blush from the arms of Dawn, | | 70 | 1335 | | 13: | Down The River | Hark, the sound of it drawing nearer, | | 48 | 875 | | 14: | Featherstonhaugh | Brookong station lay half-asleep | | 90 | 854 | | 15: | Fogarty's Gin | A sweat-dripping horse and a half-naked myall, | | 122 | 1315 | | 16: | From The Far West | Tis a song of the Never Never land | | 48 | 1356 | | 17: | How Babs Malone Cut Down The Field | Now the squatters and the “cockies,” | | 132 | 839 | | 18: | How Polly Paid For Her Keep | Do I know Polly Brown? Do I know her? Why, damme, | | 116 | 1101 | | 19: | Jack Corrigan | It’s my shout this time, boys, so come along and breast the bar, | | 128 | 1125 | | 20: | Jack’s Last Muster | The first flush of grey light, the herald of daylight, | | 100 | 1142 | | 21: | Jimmy Wood | There came a lonely Briton to the town, | | 56 | 1116 | | 22: | Jim’s Whip | Yes, there it hangs upon the wall | | 54 | 1115 | | 23: | Josephus Riley | The rum was rich and rare, | | 84 | 1085 | | 24: | Kelly's Conversion | Kelly the Ranger half opened an eye | | 141 | 1366 | | 25: | Kitty McCrae - A Galloping Rhyme | The western sun, ere he sought his lair, | | 132 | 1101 | | 26: | On The Boundary | I love the ancient boundary-fence, | | 40 | 1167 | | 27: | On The Range | On Nungar the mists of the morning hung low, | | 128 | 1154 | | 28: | Our Visitor | There’s a fellow on the station | | 48 | 1214 | | 29: | Skeeta - An Old Servant’s Tale | Our Skeeta was married, our Skeeta! the tomboy and pet of the place, | | 84 | 1220 | | 30: | The Babes In The Bush | Dozens of damp little curls; | | 111 | 1378 | | 31: | The Box-Tree's Love | Long time beside the squatter's gate | | 238 | 1327 | | 32: | The Demon Snow-Shoes | The snow lies deep on hill and dale, | | 126 | 857 | | 33: | The Digger’s Song | Scrape the bottom of the hole: gather up the stuff, | | 30 | 831 | | 34: | To A Hatpeg | There’s a nice little hatpeg that hangs on the wall | | 56 | 1323 | | 35: | Where the Dead Men Lie | Out on the wastes of the Never Never | | 64 | 1237 | | 36: | ’Twixt The Wings Of The Yard | Hear the loud swell of it, mighty pell mell of it, | | 72 | 1234 |
About:
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (March 26, 1866 – found dead May 10, 1892) was an Australian poet.
Born in Sydney, Boake worked as a surveyor and a boundary rider in New South Wales and Queensland, but is best remembered for his poetry, a volume of which was published five years after his death. A sufferer of bipolar disorder, he is believed to have committed suicide. His body was found hanging by the neck eight days after he disappeared on May 2, 1892, from a stockwhip at Middle Harbour in Sydney. One writer on Boake's life has mentioned that the suicide took place during the 1891-93 depression when the poet was unable to find work, also noting that "it has been suggested that he killed himself for the love of one of the McKeahnie girls," sisters of the horseman Charlie McKeahnie.
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