The Bagman’s Dog, : Mr. Peters’s Story (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
Stant littore Puppies!-- Virgil.It was a litter, a litter of five,Four are drown'd and one left alive,He was thought worthy ...
Stant littore Puppies!-- Virgil.It was a litter, a litter of five,Four are drown'd and one left alive,He was thought worthy ...
A traveling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gateof the College._Scholastic._ There, that is my gauntlet, my banner, my shield,Hung ...
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
'Non multo post, Gengulphus, in domo sua dormiens, occisus est a quodam clerico qui cum uxore sua adulterare solebat. Cujus ...
'The play's the thing!'-- Hamlet.Tavistock Hotel, Nov. 1839.Dear Charles,-- In reply to your letter, and Fanny's,Lord Brougham, it appears, isn't ...
"Earth, earth on the mouth of Oran, that he may blab no more." Gaelic Proverb. I.THE storm had ceased to rave: ...
The plaint and the advice of Dives hear,From hell's hot furnace, and outrageous flame,To his five brethren, and his kinsfolk ...
FIRST of Devon's thousand streams--(Beside whose banks no poet dreams,Since to her praise old Drayton fram'dHis pastoral reed, yet scarcely ...
Thogh brutal beestes be irrational,That is to say, wantand, discretioun,Yit ilk ane in their kindes naturalHas many divers inclinatioun:The bair ...
This comes to let you knowI'm well, thank God, and hope you're so:In Truth, I'm very much perplext,For something fine ...
Lobbin Clout, Cuddy, CloddipoleLobbin Clout.Thy younglings, Cuddy, are but just awake,No thrustles shrill the bramble-bush forsakeNo chirping lark the welkin ...
I'll tell you a story, a story that's true,A story that's dismal, and comical too;It is of a Friar, who ...
I read that once in Africa A princely wight did reign,Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did feign:From nature's laws ...
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
I hope I'm not too orthodox To give a joke away, That took me like the chicken-pox And left a debt to pay. Let ...
Have you heard tell the news?The Earl of Leicester has turned traitor,And at Orwell has certainly landed.He has fleeced the ...
A Tale of the TalmudWhen Solomon was reigning in his glory, Unto his throne the Queen of Sheba came,(So in the ...
"Launching our from the ship—ha, ha! courtship—Oh the misty matrimonial sea,Let the cable hang lightly,but tie the knot tightly."So the ...
In sorrow youth passes, in sorrows and pains,Angrily boils the blood in the veins;Lowering brows - the mind cannot see,Is ...
There's a damper in the ashes, tea and sugar in the bags,There's whips of feed and shelter on the sandridge ...
Proverbs xviii. 14.WIND play o'er my brow,Cool it with thy breath,Lest within it nowFever turn to death;Leave that bending rose,Bright ...
These lovers' inklings which our loves enmesh,Lost to the cunning and dimensional eye,Though tenemented in the selves we see,Not more ...
When we think of all the careThat made life's burden great,We long for the passing yearTo close our sad book ...
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs, XIII,12Where is the perfect VisionThe years have watched to see?Why do the footsteps ...
The Thresher Duck, could o'er the Q {-}{-}{-}{-}{-}{-} prevail, The Proverb says; No Fence against a Flayl. From threshing Corn, he turns ...
I feel how my eye turns towards the forests and the moon.I feel my compass pointing towards the nourishing proverbs.But ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, ...
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