A Tragedy (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
His padding was of sawdust,The little Soldier-manWho loved a light-haired lady Doll—A maiden stuffed with bran.Their little hostess never knewThat ...
His padding was of sawdust,The little Soldier-manWho loved a light-haired lady Doll—A maiden stuffed with bran.Their little hostess never knewThat ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
Ten Little Slackers Ten little slackers standing in a line, One went to U. S., then there were ...
Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright, An' the dicky birds is singin' over'ead,An' ...
I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could ...
Chuff! Chuff! Chuff! With a rumble and a rattle, Waking every echo on the old bush road;Waking, too, the wonder ...
MY mother writes: "My son on pilgrimage, How long beneath a strange moon will you roam?How long a time must ...
I haven't any way, sir, to earn my daily bread; Give me a job, I pray, sir, my children ...
Things is pickin' up as most folks knows,So I sent to town fer to git new clo'es.Some onderwear and a ...
Who would hear the fairy hornCalling all the hounds of FinnMust be in a lark's nest bornWhen the moon is ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
GUID speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
This year an ocean trip I took, and as I am a Scot And like to get my money's worth ...
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...
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