Charades (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
ARABELLA.Of a fair town where Doctor Rack was guide,His only daughter was the boast and pride -Wise Arabella, yet not ...
THE MOTHER.There was a worthy, but a simple Pair,Who nursed a Daughter, fairest of the fair:Sons they had lost, and ...
Home, Sweet Home. I'm a Bedfordshire Chap, and Bill Stumps is my name, And to tell it don't give me ...
One Glass Of Beer. Tom Smith was the son of a Bedfordshire man; (The Smiths, we all know, are a ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
The merry brown hares came leapingOver the crest of the hill,Where the clover and corn lay sleepingUnder the moonlight still.Leaping ...
Th' wynt wur still i'th shade o'th hill, An' stars began o' glowin'I'th' fadin' leet, one summer neet, ...
Beyond the Chiltern coast, this church:A lighthouse in dry seas of standing corn.Bees hive in the tower; the outer stonePared ...
The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church Rang out nostalgia for the refugee Who knew the source of bells ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in ...
I Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set ...
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what ...
The Rector met a little lass Who led a heifer by a rope. Said he: "Why don't you go to ...
THE BOY Alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. The leather law books of Alexander's father fill a ...
Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers---- The rector, the midwife, the sexton, ...
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