Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
IWith their country tied to their sails and their oars hung on the windThe shipwrecked slept tamely like dead beasts on ...
I.'Lift me without the tent, I say,-Me and my ottoman,-I'll see the messenger myself!It is the caravanFrom Africa, thou sayest,And ...
The ceremony must be foundthat will wed Desdemona to the huge Moor.It is not enoughto win the approval of the ...
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
Like a gay skiff that flees the somber shoreAnd lilts again upon the crystal sea,Her wet breast stroking with caressing ...
Long lines of ships at moorings used to lieBesides the wharves of 'Frisco. All the dayThe chipping hammers rang upon ...
Newmarket or St. Leger . . .Who, in the garden pony carrying skepsOf grass or fallen leaves, his knees gone ...
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
My lad is on the water and far away from me,And I pray God be good to him wherever he ...
To that magnificent chateau resort,Where Louis Fourteenth held his splendid court,And let both curiosity and tasteBe gratified, ere from the ...
"HELEN'S lips are drifting dust; Ilion is consumed with rust; All the galleons of Greece Drink the ocean's dreamless peace; ...
Gawd! said a gal o' the Barbary Coast —She was dancin' wi' me —"Is it true, lad, that Larry, young ...
An impudent Barbary ape Once tried on a lady's new cape. As he gave a big grin, ...
There was an Old Man of the Cape,Who possessed a large Barbary ape,Till the ape one dark nightSet the house ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
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