Joe Ramsbottom (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Calling to mind, since first my love begun, Th'uncertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly have ...
To the Senses When conquering Love did first my Heart assail, Unto mine aid I summon'd every Sense, Doubting, if ...
Calling to mind since first my love begun, Th' incertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
The Sun -- just touched the Morning -- The Morning -- Happy thing -- Supposed that He had come to ...
The Court is far away -- No Umpire -- have I -- My Sovereign is offended -- To gain his ...
A Saucer holds a Cup In sordid human Life But in a Squirrel's estimate A Saucer hold a Loaf. A ...
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent ...
Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No; I may ...
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
(Exodus, xvii.15) By whom was David taught To aim the deadly blow, When he Goliath fought, And laid the Gittite ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
(To Miss May Forshall.) HE shouts amain, he shouts again, (Her brother, fierce, as bluff King Hal), "I tell you ...
A Mother's breast: Safe refuge from her childish fears, From childish troubles, childish tears, Mists that enshroud her dawning years! ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
SHE knelt upon her brother's grave, My little girl of six years old-- He used to be so good and ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
(A Pharaoh Speaks.) I said, "Why should a pyramid Stand always dully on its base? I'll change it! Let the ...
Flak. An eventful thought came to me, who squirm in my hole. How will the matter end? Who's king these ...
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