While The Billy BoilsSearch
Poet
Barcroft Boake
1866–1892
Surveyor and poet remembered for vivid, often unsettling verse about distance, danger and mortality in the Australian bush.
30 poems in the collection
State Library of New South Wales · public domain · Public domain in Australia
The Never Never rendered with beauty, danger and unease.
30 poems
Poems in this collection
Bush life & society'Twixt the Wings of the Yard1897 · POEM-001139Love & relationshipsA Memory1897 · POEM-001124War & public lifeA Song1897 · POEM-001140Bush life & workA Song From a Sandhill1897 · POEM-001133Love & relationshipsA Valentine1897 · POEM-001129War & public lifeA Vision Out West1897 · POEM-001126Sea & travelA Wayside Queen1897 · POEM-001131War & public lifeAn Allegory1897 · POEM-001137War & public lifeAt Devlin's Siding1897 · POEM-001149War & public lifeAt the 'J.c.'1897 · POEM-001144War & public lifeBabs Malone1897 · POEM-001143Bush life & legendDesiree1897 · POEM-001151War & public lifeDown the River1897 · POEM-001146Bush life & legendFogarty’s Gin1897 · POEM-001132War & public lifeFrom the Far West1897 · POEM-001122Sea & travelHOW POLLY PAID FOR HER KEEP1897 · POEM-001136City & societyJack Corrigan1897 · POEM-001145Sea & travelJACK'S LAST MUSTER1897 · POEM-001123Bush life & legendJim’s Whip1897 · POEM-001127Bush life & legendJosephus Riley1897 · POEM-001125City & societyKELLY'S CONVERSION1897 · POEM-001147Bush life & legendKitty McCrae1897 · POEM-001138Love & relationshipsOn the Boundary1897 · POEM-001142War & public lifeOn the Range1897 · POEM-001148Bush life & legendSkeeta1897 · POEM-001141Bush life & legendThe Babes in the Bush1897 · POEM-001134Bush life & legendThe Box Tree’s Love1897 · POEM-001130City & societyThe Demon Snow Shoes1897 · POEM-001128Goldfields & workThe Digger's Song1897 · POEM-001135Never Never & mortalityWhere the Dead Men Lie1891 · POEM-001152