Mules (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I never would 'ave done it if I'd known what it would be;I thought it meant promotion an' some extra ...
I never would 'ave done it if I'd known what it would be;I thought it meant promotion an' some extra ...
When the merchant lies down, he can scarce go to sleepFor thinking of his merchandise upon the fatal deep;His ships ...
'Twas hard to think that he must go,We knew that we should miss him so,We thought that he must always ...
Promotion comes to him who sticksUnto his work and never kicks,Who watches neither clock nor sunTo tell him when his ...
The job will not make you, my boy; The job will not bring you to fameOr riches or honor ...
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, ...
Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be ...
Boanerges Blitzen, servant of the Queen, Is a dismal failure -- is a Might-have-been. In a luckless moment he discovered ...
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights; We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as ...
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
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 ...
There was a young patrolman who Had large but tender feet; They always hurt him badly when He walked upon ...
Power and government from God alone. [Applied to the glorious Revolution by King William, or the happy accession of King ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
'Twas in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers, A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years; Which was meant ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...
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