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Known universally by his pen name Banjo Paterson: Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man From Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow".
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Works
In chronological order:
1880s
- 1885
- 1886
- 1887
- 1888
- 1889
1890s
- 1890
- Our New Horse
- The Man From Snowy River
- The Hypnotist
- Gilhooley's Estate
- Those Names
- The Maori Pig Market
- On Kiley's Run
- Conroy's Gap
- 1891
- Come-by-Chance
- In the Droving Days
- The Flying Gang
- The Lost Drink
- An Evening in Dandaloo
- As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue
- Been There Before
- The Open Steeplechase
- A Mountain Station
- 1892
- The Pannikin Poet
- In Defence Of The Bush
- The Ballad of G.R. Dibbs
- An Answer to Various Bards
- The Boss of the Admiral Lynch
- The Man from Ironbark
- A Bushman's Song
- 1893
- The Duties of an Aide-de-Camp
- Behind the Scenes
- Reconstruction
- When Dacey Rode the Mule
- Black Swans
- The All Right Un
- Tom Collins
- The Great Calamity
- Last Week
- A Bush Christening
- Frying Pan's Theology
- The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut
- The Geebung Polo Club
- 1894
- A Triolet
- Shearing at Castlereagh
- The Travelling Post Office
- A Bunch of Roses
- Ambition and Art
- How Gilbert Died
- Tommy Corrigan
- A Voice from the Town
- How the Favourite Beat Us
- The Man Who Was Away
- The Amateur Rider
- Saltbush Bill
- The Two Devines
- 1895
- Johnson's Antidote
- Prelude
- The Daylight is Dying
- Jim Carew
- The Swagman's Rest
- The Wind's Message
- Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill
- Brumby's Run
- 1896
- Hay and Hell and Booligal
- Out of Sight
- Mulga Bill's Bicycle
- With the Cattle
- Song of the Artesian Water
- "Shouting" for a Camel
- The Story of Mongrel Grey
- Rio Grande's Last Race
- Pioneers
- 1897
- The Wreck of the Golfer
- By the Grey Gulf-water
- The Ballad of the Calliope
- Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
- The Scorcher and the Howling Swell
- 1898
- 1899
1900s
- 1900
- There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
- The Reveille
- Johnny Boer
- Fed Up
- Commandeering
- That V.C.
- With French to Kimberley
- Santa Claus
- The Rum Parade
- 1901
- 1902
- Now Listen to Me and I'll Tell You My Views
- It's Grand
- The Passing of Gundagai
- Anthony Considine
- Any Other Time
- Do They Know?
- Hard Luck
- "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"
- In the Stable
- Jock
- The Last Parade
- The Last Trump
- The Old Australian Ways
- The Old Timer's Steeplechase
- On the Trek
- The Pearl Diver
- Right In Front of the Army
- The Road to Gundagai
- The Road to Old Man's Town
- The Scottish Engineer
- What Have the Cavalry Done?
- A Walgett Episode
- 1903
- Waltzing Matilda
- The Ballad of Cockatoo Dock
- The Ballad of that P.N.
- Riders in the Stand
- Policeman G.
- Gone Down
- The Ballad of the Carpet Bag
- Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs
- 1904
- Macbreath
- A Nervous Governor-General
- The Fitzroy Blacksmith
- The Seven Ages of Wise
- The Rhyme of the O'Sullivan
- "Ave Caesar"
- The Premier and the Socialist
- The Ballad of M.T. Nutt and His Dog
- The Man from Goondiwindi, Q.
- 1905
- The Lay of the Motor-Car
- The Dam that Keele Built
- The Incantation
- Saltbush Bill, J.P.
- The Dying Stockman
- 1906
- A Motor Courtship
- Wisdom of Hafiz
- The Dauntless Three
- Santa Claus in the Bush
- An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life. (Novel)
- 1907
1910s
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- A Ballad of Ducks
- The Angel's Kiss
- The Gundaroo Bullock
- Not On It
- A Singer of the Bush
- At the Melting of the Snow
- Song of the Pen
- 1918
- 1919
1920s
- 1922
- 1923
- Jimmy Dooley's Army
- Typographical
- Shakespeare on the Turf
- A Job for McGuinness
- 1929
- To George Lambert
- 1933
- Australian Scenery
- Benjamin Bandicoot
- The Billy-Goat Overland
- Black Harry's Team
- Buffalo Country
- A Bush Lawyer
- Camouflage
- A Change of Menu
- The Diggers
- A Dog's Mistake
- An Emu Hunt
- Flying Squirrels
- Frogs in Chorus
- Fur and Feathers
- High Explosive
- The Lung Fish
- Morgan's Dog
- Old Man Platypus
- Shearing With a Hoe
- The Silent Shearer
- Weary Will
- White Cockatoos
- Why the Jackass Laughs
- 1936
- The Shearer's Colt (Novel)
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Some or all works by this author are also in the public domain in the United States because they were in the public domain in Australia in 1996, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the combined effect of Australia having joined the Berne Convention in 1928, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)
