Supper at the Mill (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Mother.Well, Frances.Frances.Well, good mother, how are you?M. I'm hearty, lass, but warm; the weather's warm:I think 'tis mostly warm on ...
Mother.Well, Frances.Frances.Well, good mother, how are you?M. I'm hearty, lass, but warm; the weather's warm:I think 'tis mostly warm on ...
The rabbit's ears are flattened and he's squattin' scared and still,Ag'inst the dripping cedar; and the quail below the hillAre ...
Prince Charlie an' I, we war chased owre the sea Wi naething but conscience for glory.An' here I drew sawrd, when ...
I've done my share of shearing sheep,Of droving and all that,And bogged a bullock-team as well,On a Murrumbidgee flat.I've seen ...
When old ADAM bit the apple, And thereafter had to grappleWith hard toil to earn ...
I have often been asked by the people I knowed,To tell 'em the way that a cow puncher rode.Now them ...
Slim Bates ain't braggin' any moreAbout how he kin ride'An' gosh, but he gets mighty soreWhenever he is guyed.He uster ...
When the drays are bogged and sinking, then it's no use sitting thinking, You must put the teams together and ...
I've done my share of shearing sheep,Of droving and all that;And bogged a bullock team as well,On a Murrumbidgee flat.I've ...
EACH hour that passes, dead for evermore,Lies in the waste of ages whence the staleAir of unwoken silence, shore to ...
As I was coming down Conroy's Gap,I heard a maiden cry;'There goes Bill the Bullocky,He's bound for Gundagai.A better poor ...
A cloud of dust on the long white road, And the teams go creeping on Inch by inch with the ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
I hate you, rubber souls, you seem to stretch to fit any regime. They'll give a yawning smile, stretched wide, ...
I'd been on duty from two till four. I went and stared at the dug-out door. Down in the frowst ...
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