Will H. Ogilvie

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William Henry Ogilvie achieved great popularity in both Scotland and Australia, where in his youth he worked as a stockman and rough-rider in the outback, and where he is given national status as a balladeer of the bush. His work ranges from hymns of praise to his homeland in the Scottish Borders, and narratives on Borders history and legend, to sporting verse (he is the master poet of the horse) and witty lines contributed to Punch. Will Ogilvie’s ashes were scattered on the road to Roberton, – the site of one of his most famous poems – and a memorial was erected in 1993.

The memorial trust in his name continues to publish works by him, including Bits of fun in 2013, from a manuscript that had lain unpublished for well over half a century.

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Selected Bibliography

Fair girls and gray horses: With other verses (Angus & Robertson, 1898)
Hearts of gold, and other verses (Angus & Robertson, 1903)
Rainbows and witches (Elkin Matthews, 1907)
Whaup o’ the rede (Thomas Fraser, 1909)
The land we love (Thomas Fraser, 1910)
The overlander, and other verses (Fraser, Asher & co., 1913)
The Australian, and other verses (Angus & Robertson, 1916)
Galloping shoes: Hunting and polo poems (Constable and co., 1922)
Scattered scarlet (Constable and co., 1923)
A handful of leather (Constable and co., 1928)
A clean wind blowing : Songs of the out-of-doors (Constable and co., 1930)
The collected sporting verse of Will H. Ogilvie (Constable and co., 1932)
Saddles again (Duckworth, 1937)
From sunset to dawn (Angus & Robertson, 1946)
Saddle for a throne (R. M. Williams, 1952)
The Border poems of Will H. Ogilvie (John Murray Hood, 1959)
The Hill Road to Roberton (W.H.Ogilvie Memorial Trust, 2009)
Bits of fun (W.H.Ogilvie Memorial Trust, 2013)
Belalie and beyond (W.H.Ogilvie Memorial Trust, 2021)