The Creed of Old George Jones (C J Dennis Poems)
A little of fretting, a little of getting, A little of slaving and saving, may be;A little of spending, a ...
A little of fretting, a little of getting, A little of slaving and saving, may be;A little of spending, a ...
This Consul Casement-he who heard the cry Of stricken people-and who in his fight To lift the torture load from ...
FOR every man who works there are A dozen who will let him; They'll smiling bask within the shade The ...
SLOW to the silent mansions of the dead,Yon train in sad funereal pomp draws near;That solemn knell proclaims a spirit ...
On being desired to attempt writing a Comedy. WOULD'ST thou then have me tempt the comic sceneOf gay Thalia? used ...
From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;From lethargy to fever of the heart;From faithful life to dream-dowered days ...
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-Memorial from the Soul's eternityTo one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,Whether for lustral ...
639My Portion is Defeat-today-A paler luck than Victory-Less Paeans-fewer Bells-The Drums don't follow Me-with tunes-Defeat-a somewhat slower-means-More Arduous than Balls-'Tis ...
(A. D. 406) "A Centurion of the Thirtieth" -- Puck of Pook's Hill My father's father saw it not, And ...
My Portion is Defeat -- today -- A paler luck than Victory -- Less Paeans -- fewer Bells -- The ...
His Mind like Fabrics of the East Displayed to the despair Of everyone but here and there An humble Purchaser ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise To praise the monarch of the earth and skies, ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
Why run the crowd? What means the throng That rushes fast the streets along? Can Rhodes a prey to flames, ...
I Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When -- with sweet flowers of our ...
DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back, When you first girded for this arduous track, And under various whimsical pretexts Endowed ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
She stands as pale as Parian statues stand; Like Cleopatra when she turned at bay, And felt her strength above ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
Though better men may fear that trumpet's warning, I meet you, lady, on the Judgment morning, With golden hope my ...
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