While The Billy BoilsSearch
Campfire and billy illustration used for Charles Harpur’s collection route

Poet

Charles Harpur

1813–1868

Australian-born poet whose writing observed forests, weather, solitude and colonial life with unusual precision and ambition.

While The Billy Boils · collection artwork · Site artwork

2 poems

Poems in this collection

Forest stillness, landscape and colonial reflection.

Landscape & natureA Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest1918 · POEM-001716Bush life & legendThe Creek of the Four Graves1888 · POEM-002296