Alfred the Harper (John Sterling Poems)
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...
Once in a time old Johnny Bull Flew in a raging fury,And swore that Jonathan should have No trials, sir, by jury;That ...
What numbers of boats in this river's depths have sunk and disappeared,A single plank of which, even shouldst thou search, ...
If you could bring her glories back!You gentle sirs who sift the dustAnd burrow in the mould and mustOf Babylon ...
'You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,' said the man from Allan's Creek,'But I know a dorg that simply knocked ...
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower;He strikes his harp with a hand of power;His harp return'd a responsive din;Then ...
'Ere! 'Ave a 'eart! 'e sez. "Why, love a duck! A 'uman bein' ain't a choppin' block!There ain't no ...
A cow boy and his trusty palWere camped one night by an old corral;They were keeping a line on the ...
A gambler born was young BasilHis finances were all of a latherA wayward boy, but his mother's joyAnd likewise, the ...
There was an agile sailor ladWho longed to know the bushSo with his swag and billy-canHe said he'd make a ...
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
Oh, is there not one place on earthWhere man's goodwill has gone from birthThro' adolescence, with its rage,Into a kindly, ...
Alas, my dear, be you high-born, Or just a Sydney cutie,I fear you've earned a he-man's scorn Thro' failing in ...
Our sergeant-major is Bandy Burke,Of course he couldn't affordTo take a commission - he does the workAnd the credit goes ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm: Besides I can ...
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