The Borough. Letter VIII: Trades (George Crabbe Poems)
OF manufactures, trade, inventions rare,Steam-towers and looms, you'd know our Borough's share -'Tis small: we boast not these rich subjects ...
OF manufactures, trade, inventions rare,Steam-towers and looms, you'd know our Borough's share -'Tis small: we boast not these rich subjects ...
'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --'Opes y'll live to be a ...
A Chief Of The Indian Tribes, The Tuscaroras.On Looking At His Portrait By WeirCOOPER, whose name is with his country's ...
One evening I found lodging in a village where A press-gang stole by night to seize my aging host,Who, hearing ...
Dance! called the fiddle, Its strings loudly giggled, The bailiff's man wriggled Ahead for a spree."Hold!" shouted Ola And tripped ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
What is unwisdom but the lusting after Longevity: to be old and full of days! For the vast and unremitting ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
THE father's name ye ne'er shall be told Of my darling unborn life; "Shame, shame," ye cry, "on the strumpet ...
Waiting our turn before the Court the capital letter, this Honorable Court waiting for our brief short minutes the clock ...
I had some things that I called mine -- And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim ...
A prompt -- executive Bird is the Jay -- Bold as a Bailiff's Hymn -- Brittle and Brief in quality ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
So great my debt to thee, I know my life Is all too short to pay the least I owe, ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his 'Defence of Ignorance' how many poets Go mad or seem to be ...
YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung, And watched me all the days that I was young; You, at whose step ...
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
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