To Let (John Hartley Poems)
Aw live in a snug little cot,An' tho' poor, yet aw keep aght o' debt,Cloise by, in a big garden ...
Aw live in a snug little cot,An' tho' poor, yet aw keep aght o' debt,Cloise by, in a big garden ...
Forasmuch as the Canter's and Fanatic's LordSayeth peace and joy are by me abhorred;And would fill each Sunday with gloom ...
There are lone cemeteries,tombs full of soundless bones,the heart threading a tunnel,a dark, dark tunnel :like a wreck we die ...
THE folks, that on the first of MayWore winter coats and hose,Began to say, the first of June,"Good Lord! how ...
The day is done, and darknessFrom the wing of night is loosed,As a feather is wafted downward,From a chicken going ...
Genial poets, pink-facedearnest wits-you have given the worldsome choice morsels,gobbets of language presentedas one presents T-bone steakand Cherries Jubilee.Goodbye, goodbye,I ...
Up goes the price of our bread--Up goes the cost of our caking!People must ever be fed;Bakers must ever be ...
Nine grenadiers, with bayonets in their guns;Nine bakers' baskets, with hot cross buns;Nine brown elephants standing in a row;Nine new ...
Guess what smells so... You didn't guess.Lilies? Lindens? No. Winds? No.But princes and barbers smell so,The evening smells so, in ...
The baker-man was kneading doughAnd whistling softly, sweet and lough.Yet ever and anon he'd coughAs though his head were coming ...
I can't abear a butcher,I can't abide his meat,The ugliest shop of all is his,The ugliest in the street;Bakers' are ...
With 'leven, it were not surprisingShould Abdul get another rising,Or with the bakers over thereOr brewers, he should get a ...
She had a desyre ofte to be weddeAnd also to lye in an other mannes beddeLytell rought she therforeShe is ...
Whan that Bachus, the myghti lorde,And Juno eke, both by one accorde,Hath sette a-broche of myghti wyne a tone,And after ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
Its glittering emptiness it brings — This little lane of useless things. Here peering envy arm in arm With ennui ...
1. Statesmen and apothecaries, Poets, plumbers, antiquaries, Premiers with their secretaries, Home and foreign missionaries, And ...
By Lawson's Hill, near Mudgee, On old Eurunderee - The place they called "New Pipeclay", Where the diggers used to ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through ...
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
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