Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses

by A. B. Paterson from 1902

About

The second major Paterson collection continues the Australian bush ballad tradition he defined: poems about stockmen, drovers, shearers, and the vast landscape they moved through, rendered with vernacular energy and precise observation. The collection includes 'Clancy of the Overflow' — another poem that has become part of Australian cultural consciousness — with its contrast between the freedom of the outback and the confinement of city life.

Victorian Lyrical Moving Playfulen

Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses

Words: 23.9k
Duration: ~2 hr 59 min

45 sections

23.9k words

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RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES

350:16

Contents with First Lines

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Contents with First Lines:

5694:16

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Rio Grande's Last Race

6624:58

4

By the Grey Gulf-water

2882:10

5

With the Cattle

7645:44

6

The First Surveyor

5193:54

7

Mulga Bill's Bicycle

4373:17

8

The Pearl Diver

6685:01

9

The City of Dreadful Thirst

5594:12

10

Saltbush Bill's Gamecock

8736:33

11

Hay and Hell and Booligal

7475:36

12

Father Riley's Horse

1.2k8:49

13

The Scotch Engineer

4423:19

14

Song of the Future

1.1k8:24

15

Anthony Considine

3092:19

16

Song of the Artesian Water

1.3k9:30

17

The Road to Gundagai

2131:36

18

Saltbush Bill's Second Fight

1.3k10:02

19

Hard Luck

1611:12

20

Song of the Federation

1911:26

21

Song of the Australians in Action

2121:35

22

The Old Australian Ways

1.1k8:22

23

Do They Know

1551:10

24

The Passing of Gundagai

5263:57

25

The Wargeilah Handicap

1.1k8:01

26

Any Other Time

2591:57

27

The Last Trump

2231:40

28

Tar and Feathers

2361:46

29

It's Grand

2501:53

30

Out of Sight

1811:21

31

The Road to Old Man's Town

1110:50

32

The Old Timer's Steeplechase

9567:10

33

In the Stable

1.1k8:30

34

Driver Smith

7605:42

35

There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down

2401:48

36

On the Trek

2421:49

37

The Last Parade

3022:16

38

With French to Kimberley

6885:10

39

Johnny Boer

4093:04

40

What Have the Cavalry Done

2191:39

41

Right in the Front of the Army

5334:00

42

Fed Up

5303:59

43

Santa Claus

5424:04

44

RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE, AND OTHER VERSES.

3232:25

Biographical Note

45

Biographical Note:

3522:38

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