The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Edward Lear Poem)
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away ...
With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! ...
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear ...
OH, England is a pleasant place for them that 's rich and high; But England is a cruel place for ...
I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Where roaring on the ledges the summer ...
"And there was no more sea." Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim Calling to the Angels ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
It was in the old days, When she used to hang out at a place Called Club Zombie, A black ...
As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, To the billows of foam-crested blue, Yon bark, that ...
A sweet fragrance a rousing chorus the waves sang your praise crashing on the rocks just after the turn of ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
On this wondrous sea Sailing silently, Ho! Pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar -- Where the ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
The sea runs back against itself With scarcely time for breaking wave To cannonade a slatey shelf And thunder under ...
When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the stadium are trembly ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'ver the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
I. (Bread and Music) Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was ...
Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as ...
Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town, It has neither door nor window, the walls are broken down; The ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
MARK where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like, Its skeleton shadow on the broad-back'd wave! Here is a fitting spot to ...
Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like, Its skeleton shadow on the broad-backed wave! Here is a fitting spot to ...
From my window I can see, Where the sandhills dip, One far glimpse of open sea. Just a slender slip ...
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable ...
These hills, to hurt me more, That am hurt already enough,- Having left the sea behind, Having turned suddenly and ...
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