The Velocipedia Britannica. (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
Bicycle, my bicycle, that liest where I lie, I've merely strained a tendon, but your time has come to die. ...
Bicycle, my bicycle, that liest where I lie, I've merely strained a tendon, but your time has come to die. ...
Which I wish to remark,And my language is plain,That for plots that are darkAnd not always in vain,The heathen Pass-ee ...
ROSAMONDE.WILD midst the teeming buds of opening May, Breaking large branches from the flow'ry thorn, O'er the fern'd hills see ...
PROSPERITY, with glitt'ring charms,Invites her vot'ries to her arms,In Pleasure's silken robes array'd;Of Folly's cup she bids them drink,Oft lures ...
Saviour, I thy word believe,My unbelief remove;Now thy quick'ning Spirit give,The unction from above;Shew me, Lord, how good thou art,My ...
THO' yet the clouds portentous low'r,The winds have hush'd their concert rude;Well suits the calm, the silent show'r,With Meditation's pensive ...
High on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover,Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian ...
When sickness clouds the languid eye,And seeds of sharp diseases flySwift through the vital frame;Rich drugs are torn from earth ...
FIRE-FLY, thou art a pretty, pleasing thing: In evening's dusk, we catch, and thickening night,Now here, now there, by closed ...
Spaniels are all very well,But they smell.Scalyhams deposit white hairsOn the chairs.Wire-hairs are all right,But they fight.(Which also applies to ...
Cistercians might crack their sidesWith laughter, and exemption get,At sight of heroes clasping brides,And hearing--O the horn! the horn!The horn ...
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Take some time to attend to your health. Surely I will be disquieted ...
Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane, For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain; Never did Covent Garden boast So bright a batter'd, ...
Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance Guided so well that I obtain'd the prize, Both by the ...
Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance Guided so well that I obtain'd the prize, Both by the ...
Here in my mountain home, On rugged hills and steep, I sit and watch you come, O Riverinia Sheep! You ...
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