Robert Burns, Robert Browning, James Hogg, and John Keats have all been ascribed. Within the poet's own "A song of the poets", he also hints at Robert Bridges, Abercrombie, Davies, W. B. Yeats, Noyes, Watson, Henry Newbolt and John Masefield. His love of the Australian Outback, dogs, and horses is well-reflected in his work ("My Life in the Open", "Kelpies", "The Australian"). The equestrian dedication was even subject of jibes:  A collection of Will Ogilvie's poetry was published in "Saddle for a throne" (1952), 'Dedicated to comrades of camp-fire and muster'; the book contains a foreword by R. M. Williams, who met him in the late 1940s and who was instrumental in publishing the works. Cited as a 'triumvirate of renown – the horsemen poets', he held the pedestal with Adam Lindsay Gordon and R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Ogilvie also wrote tributes about soldiers, including " 'The Australian: The bravest thing God ever made!' (A British officer's opinion)" which was set to music by 1918. During World War I, Ogilvie contributed verses for the London "Punch" magazine. In World War II, his poem "The Australian" was reprinted, the only article ever republished by the magazine (by 1970). Women or 'fair girls' were also a recurring theme in Ogilvie's poems, including "His Gippsland girl". Although his attitudes were said to be that of a courtly gentleman, and mindful of his love of horses, 'One might say that he showed no sign of deeper feeling for girls than for horses.' Ogilvie was included as one of the worthy 'sun-browned muses' who wrote in rhythmic metre rather than 'free style' evident by the 1920s:  He exercised his prerogative to both use the same title for different poems, and adjust existing poems. He occasionally assigned another title to an existing poem, such as "The ploughman" (in "Hearts of gold" (1903)) and "The ploughman poet" (1925, in an Australian newspaper). By 1950 the poet was still warmly described as 'one of Australia's greatest and most loved poets', and 'one of the last of the great poets of the 1900 era'.