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Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses (1902) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1902, and features the poems " Rio Grande's Last Race ", " Mulga Bill's Bicycle ", " Saltbush Bill's Game Cock " and " Saltbush Bill's Second Fight ".
- Andrew Barton Paterson
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- 1902
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- The Man from Snowy River
- Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses.
- Biographical Note
AND OTHER VERSES. * "The immediate success of this book of bush ballads is without parallel in Colonial literary annals, nor can any living English or American poet boast so wide a public, always excepting Mr. Rudyard Kipling." * "These lines have the true lyrical cry in them. Eloquent and ardent verses." * "Swinging, rattling ballads of ready humo...
* "There is no mistaking the vigour of Mr. Paterson's verse; there is no difficulty in feeling the strong human interest which moves in it." * "Every way worthy of the man who ranks with the first of Australian poets." * "At once naturalistic and imaginative, and racy without being slangy, the poems have always a strong human interest of every-day ...
Andrew Barton Paterson was born at Narambla, in New South Wales, on 17 February 1864, but grew up at Buckenbah and Illalong. He became a lawyer but devoted much of his time to writing, and gained popularity especially for his poetry and ballads. His best known poems are The Man from Snowy River (1892) on which a motion picture was loosely based, an...
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6 de dez. de 2006 · Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941
6 de jul. de 2018 · LibriVox recording of Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses by Andrew Barton Paterson. Read in English by Erin Grassie; Zechariah Raman; Algy Pug; Steve C;...
He strode along at racing speed, The mighty Rio Grande. But on his ribs the whalebone stung, A madness it did seem! And soon it rose on every tongue That Jack Macpherson rode among The creatures of his dream. He looked to left and looked to right, As though men rode beside; And Rio Grande, with foam-flecks white,
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