The Nancy’s Pride (Bliss William Carman Poems)
ON the long slow heave of a lazy sea,To the flap of an idle sail,The Nancy's Pride went out on ...
ON the long slow heave of a lazy sea,To the flap of an idle sail,The Nancy's Pride went out on ...
It was an' aboot the Lammas time,In sixteen forty-three, sirs,That there fell oot the awfu' fecht'Twixt Macfadden an' Macfee, sirs.Macfadden, ...
It's little that I'd care for the glories of Ireland, Waiting for the shadows to gather in the ...
A trader sailed from Stepney town - Wake her up! Shake her up! Try her with the mainsail! A trader ...
Avaunt! What news is this I hear Of portent grim and sinister?Is he, whose words insult mine ear, A mere, ...
Say you have some great objective.Very well. Be calm, reflective;Make no vulgar show of vigor; 'tisn't good.Do not rush the ...
We were living in a flat; it was number eighty-three.At eighty-four the Barleys lived, a fearsome man was he.He had ...
I."Bonny lassie, rosy lassie,Ken ye what is care?Had ye ever a thought, lassie,Made yer hertie sair?"Johnnie said it, Johnnie seekinSicht ...
We hoped to end our troubled days Far from the maddening strife, Erstwhile to chortle roundelays ...
The pigeons of the Abbey, the pigeons of Saint Paul's,That woo in windy niches of grey and grimy walls,The pearl-grey ...
In my father's house! The wordsBring sweet cadence to my ears.Wandering thoughts, like homing birds,Fly all swiftly down the years,To ...
From pride and foolish confidence,From every waking creed,From the dread fear of fearing,Protect us, Lord, and lead. Great God, who, ...
BEYOND this region of painful earth,With its mingling of gloom and gleam,With its fear and fret and its hollow mirth,Is ...
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! The Big Five met in the world's light as many ...
I In days when men had joy of war, A God of Battles sped each mortal jar; The peoples pledged ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
Could Fate ordain a lot for me Beyond all human ills, I think that I would choose to be A ...
Not much to me is yonder lane Where I go every day; But when there's been a shower of rain ...
And there we were together again- Together again, we three: Morgan, Fingal, fiddle, and all, They had come for the ...
It chanced out back at the Christmas time, When the wheat was ripe and tall, A stranger rode to the ...
I pull the bed slowly open, I open the lips of the bed, get the stack of fresh underpants out ...
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