Kenmare River (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
'Tis pretty to be in Ballinderry,'Tis pretty to be in Ballindoon,But 'tis prettier far in County KerryCoortin' under the bran' ...
'Tis pretty to be in Ballinderry,'Tis pretty to be in Ballindoon,But 'tis prettier far in County KerryCoortin' under the bran' ...
BLESS us, and save us! What's here?Pop!At a bound,A tiny brown creature, grotesque in his grace,Is sitting before us, and ...
He was lengthsman on the railway, and his station scarce deservedThat "pre-eminence in sorrow" of the Majesty he served,But as dear ...
When Papa's sick, my goodness sakes!Such awful, awful times it makes.He speaks in, oh! such lonesome tones,And gives such ghas'ly ...
DEAR BEATRICE , with pleasure I read your kind letter;On the subject, methinks, there could scarce be a better:How vivid ...
A Fable."WHAT can the matter be with the thermometer?Is it the sun or the moon or the comet, orSomething broke ...
It was spring the first time that I saw her, for her papa and mamma moved inNext door, just as ...
Mabel stood by the garden gate Swinging her hat in a careless way; A frown on her face, a ...
Up in early morning light,Sweeping, dusting, "setting right,"Oiling all the household springs,Sewing buttons, tying strings,Telling Bridget what to do,Mending rips ...
How funny you are today New Yorklike Ginger Rogers in Swingtimeand St. Bridget's steeple leaning a little to the lefthere ...
The Passionate Householder to his LoveCome, live with us and be our cook,And we will all the whimsies brookThat German, ...
'Twas a New England Cocky, as of late I've been told,Who died, so 'tis said, on account of the cold.When ...
Sweet heaven's smileGleamed o'er the isle, That gems the dreamy sea.One far gone day,And flash'd its ray,More than a thousand ...
Old lame Bridget doesn't hearFairy music in the grassWhen the gloaming's on the mereAnd the shadow people pass:Never hears their ...
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed -- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified By every Broom ...
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good ...
O'Driscoll drove with a song The wild duck and the drake From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the ...
Across the table, Bridget sneaks a smile; she's caught me staring past her at the man who brings us curried ...
I tell thee, Dick, where I have been, Where I the rarest things have seen, O, things without compare! Such ...
When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land And Priestcraft shackled Reason, At GODSTOW dwelt a goodly band, Grey monks they were, and ...
In a little town in Devonshire, in the mellow September moonlight, A gentleman passing along a street saw a pitiful ...
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