The Old-Home Folks (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
Poems about apprentice (21 Poems)
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto I. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon (James Revel Poems)
Part IMY loving countrymen, pray lend an ear, To this relation that I bring you here, My sufferings at large I will ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;A lad quite ignorant ...
The Art of the Lathe (B H Fairchild Poems)
Leonardo imagined the first one.The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord,illustrated in Plumier's L'art de tourner en ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VII. The Servant-Of-All-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
Apprentices (Ivor Gurney Poems)
We who praise poets with our labouring penAnd justify ourselves with laud of menHave not the right to call our ...
The Three Foot Rule (William John Macquorn Rankine Poems)
When I was bound apprentice, and learned to use my hands,Folk never talked of measures that came from foreign lands:Now ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
An Excellent Ballad Of George Barnwell, An Apprentice Of London (Anonymous British Poems)
An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an Apprentice of London, who…thrice robbed his master and murdered his vncle in Ludlow. ...
The Growth of Sym (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Sym was a Glug; and 'tis mentioned soThat the tale reads perfectly plain as we go. In his veins ...
‘Frisco (Bill Adams Poems)
Long lines of ships at moorings used to lieBesides the wharves of 'Frisco. All the dayThe chipping hammers rang upon ...
Ghosts In Deptford (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If ghosts should walk in Deptford, as very well they may,A man might find the night there more stirring than ...
Silberhorn (Bill Adams Poems)
In Dennis O'Halloran's bar-room, down by Newcastle pier,(Was ever ye down to Newcastle, lad?), I was sittin' drinkin' a beer,An' ...
True Love Requited; or, The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (Anonymous British Poems)
There was a youthe, and a well-beloved youthe,And he was a squires son;He loved the bayliffes daughter deare,That lived in ...
Home Round The Horn (Bill Adams Poems)
It's blowing up squally, it's piping like hell,And the packet she rolls till she tinkles her bell;Oh, I hope it ...
Bound Away (Bill Adams Poems)
A three-skysail yarder with her hatches battened down,And the grey sky up above her, and the Mersey's muddy brownA-rippling at ...
Elegant Morning (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
The street looks like eternal Sunday.Lightly summerhouse rests against summerhouse.Chauffeurs wheel by grandly.Three fine citizens glide by quietly.A song flies ...
Walking on Dry Land (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Continuing his service the apprentice, the master commissioned as he went up from this place Walking on the dry land ...
So Who is this Nick Character (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So the sermon had a hook, so to speak; no, she hadn't said the sky was green. She said she ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...