While The Billy BoilsSearch
Portrait of James Brunton Stephens, circa 1895–1900

Poet

James Brunton Stephens

1835–1902

Scottish-born Australian poet, teacher and public servant whose verse ranged from bush comedy and social satire to landscape and civic reflection.

4 poems in the collection

State Library of Queensland · public domain · Public domain in Australia

Bush comedy, drought, work and colonial social observation.

4 poems

Poems in this collection

Bush humour & characterDrought and Doctrine1885 · POEM-002226Roads, journeys & distanceOff the Track1885 · POEM-002205Bush humour & characterQuart Pot Creek1885 · POEM-002211Bush humour & characterThe Squatter's Baccy Famine1885 · POEM-002201

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