The Owl And The Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear Poem)
I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and ...
I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! ...
"Where have you been this while away, Johnnie, Johnnie?" 'Long with the rest on a picnic lay, Johnnie, my Johnnie, ...
To sup with thee thou didst me home invite, And mad'st a promise that mine appetite Should meet and tire, ...
I "O Lord, why grievest Thou? - Since Life has ceased to be Upon this globe, now cold As lunar ...
They sing their dearest songs -- He, she, all of them -- yea, Treble and tenor and bass, And one ...
There once was a bird that lived up in a tree, And all he could whistle was "Fiddle-dee-dee" - A ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? 'Twas, ...
By neer resemblance see that Bird betray'd Who takes the well wrought Arras for a shade There hopes to pearch ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
RORATE coeli desuper! Hevins, distil your balmy schouris! For now is risen the bricht day-ster, Fro the rose Mary, flour ...
You brave heroic minds, Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue, Go, and subdue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurke here ...
Here comes Kate Summers, who, for gold, Takes any man to bed: "You knew my friend, Nell Barnes," she said; ...
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man" I pine and peak And questless seek Groping and moping to linger and ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep, within my heart the fear that wind or ...
Next, then, the peacock, gilt With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes Flow in the eyes! And how deep, ...
When Jesus Christ was four years old The angels brought Him toys of gold, Which no man ever had bought ...
Oh, why should a hen have been run over on West 4th Street in the middle of summer? She was ...
Long ago in a poultry yard One dull November morn, Beneath a motherly soft wing A little goose was born. ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Aug. 14. 1653. O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great And glorious is thy name through all the earth? So ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
In borrowed boots which don't fit and an old olive greatcoat, I hunt the corn-fed rabbit, game fowl, squirrel, starved ...
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