While The Billy BoilsSearch
Poet
Thomas Edward Spencer
1845–1911
Builder, contractor, industrial arbitrator and writer whose humorous verse portrayed sport, work and social life in colonial Australia.
39 poems in the collection
Project Gutenberg Australia · public domain portrait · Public domain in Australia
Bush humour, work, sport and social and political satire.
39 poems
Poems in this collection
Australian bush life & humourA Bush-Bred Youngster1906 · POEM-002140Australian bush life & humourA Nicht Wi' Burns in Yackandandie1906 · POEM-002150Australian bush life & humourBen the Stoker1906 · POEM-002155Australian bush life & humourBlue-Eyed Nell1906 · POEM-002165Australian bush life & humourBrogan's Flat1906 · POEM-002156Australian bush life & humourCome Back to the Bush1906 · POEM-002169Australian bush life & humourDer Pritish Tar From Amsterdam1906 · POEM-002172Australian bush life & humourDid You Ever?1906 · POEM-002161Love & courtshipDo I Love Thee?1906 · POEM-002154Farewell & reflectionFarewell1906 · POEM-002175Nation, politics & public lifeGod Defend the Commonwealth1906 · POEM-002148Australian bush life & humourHow McDougall Topped the Score1906 · POEM-002137Landscape & placeIllawarra1906 · POEM-002174Nation, politics & public lifeLatter Day Patriots1906 · POEM-002149Work, disaster & remembranceMount Kembla1906 · POEM-002166Australian bush life & humourMy Own Bonny Yacht1906 · POEM-002157Australian bush life & humourNot Too Bad1906 · POEM-002153Australian bush life & humourO'Mulligan's Wallaby Drive1906 · POEM-002147Australian bush life & humourO'Toole and McSharry1906 · POEM-002170Politics & social satireRum and Water1906 · POEM-002159Australian bush life & humourSchneider Strauss1906 · POEM-002144Australian bush life & humourSimple Sam1906 · POEM-002143Australian bush life & humourThe Degeneration of Jim1906 · POEM-002141Politics & social satireThe Dream of Harum-Scarum1906 · POEM-002173Australian bush life & humourThe Haunted Lagoon1906 · POEM-002164Australian bush life & humourThe Irony of Fate1906 · POEM-002163Australian bush life & humourThe Legend of "Dead Man's Gully"1906 · POEM-002162Australian bush life & humourThe Penitent Swagman1906 · POEM-002146Politics & social satireThe Political Dead-Beat1906 · POEM-002158Gender & social commentaryThe Power Behind the Throne1906 · POEM-002171Australian bush life & humourThe Prerogative of Piper's Flat1906 · POEM-002138Australian bush life & humourThe Rouseabout1906 · POEM-002151Australian bush life & humourThe Song of the Mason1906 · POEM-002152Australian bush life & humourThe Song of the Sundowner1906 · POEM-002139Australian bush life & humourThe Stockman's Serenade1906 · POEM-002168Landscape, memory & reflectionThe Voice of the Willows1906 · POEM-002142Colonial humour & cultural stereotypeThe Wedding of Winona1906 · POEM-002167Love, memory & reflectionThink of Me1906 · POEM-002145Australian bush life & humourTim Turpin1906 · POEM-002160