Marksman Sam (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom At the zoo up at Blackpool one year With a stick with an `orse's ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
What boots it, thy virtue, What profit thy parts, While one thing thou lackest, The art of all arts! The ...
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught ...
Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake, a pasty Syrian with a few words of English ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
It would never be Common -- more -- I said -- Difference -- had begun -- Many a bitterness -- ...
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading -- treading -- till it seemed ...
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
My thoughts are like the boots randomly arrayed in the rack outside the window, some in pairs neatly stacked, comfortably ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
I have experienc'd The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb With ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and ...
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace Of youth, in those fair eyes and clustering hair, That brow untouched by ...
Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells, And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask beneath ...
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
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