Dirge (George Darley Poems)
Prayer unsaid, and mass unsung, Deadman's dirge must still be rung:Dingle-dong, the dead-bells sound! Mermen chant his dirge around!Wash him ...
Prayer unsaid, and mass unsung, Deadman's dirge must still be rung:Dingle-dong, the dead-bells sound! Mermen chant his dirge around!Wash him ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
on the last day of winter i went to bed harsh winds rainstorms beating my head houses trees with a ...
When outside the icy rain Comes leaping helter-skelter, Shall I tie my restive brain Snugly under shelter? Shall I make ...
A STURGEON, once, a glutton famed was led To have for supper--all, except the head. With wond'rous glee he feasted ...
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones-- In fact, he's remarkably fat. He doesn't haunt pubs--he has eight or nine ...
They will soon be down To one, but he still will be For a little while still will be stopping ...
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Hope is a subtle Glutton -- He feeds upon the Fair -- And yet -- inspected closely What Abstinence is ...
The year begins with war. Our bombs fall day and night, Hour after hour, by death Abroad appeasing wrath, Folly, ...
AN we suppress the old Remorse Who bends our heart beneath his stroke, Who feeds, as worms feed on the ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
Intemperance punished and pardoned. Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent, Prepares for his own punishment; What pains, what loathsome maladies, ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time ...
From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time ...
From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time ...
Our fathers, brave men were and strong, And whisky was their daily liquor; They used to move the world along ...
Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me ...
Roar of the rushing train fearfully rocking, Impatient people jammed in line for food, The rasping noise of cars together ...
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