Hard Knocks (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet, Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go wrong; I ...
I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet, Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go wrong; I ...
648Promise This-When You be Dying-Some shall summon Me-Mine belong Your latest Sighing-Mine-to Belt Your Eye-Not with Coins-though they be MintedFrom ...
JUST about the time the clouds are blackestLet your thoughts go roving to the sun,Just about the time your job ...
The night will never stay,The night will still go by,Though with a million starsYou pin it to the sky;Though you ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?" "Now 'ow in the devil would I know?" "'E's taken my girl out walkin', An' ...
There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay, Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree; It ...
I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level ...
Black, black buckles like grates on the front of a pot-bellied stove Clumpy black buckle boots worn over shoes by ...
Promise This -- When You be Dying -- Some shall summon Me -- Mine belong Your latest Sighing -- Mine ...
He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap -- And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding ...
THERE'S a youth in this city, it were a great pity That he from our lassies should wander awa'; For ...
Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would ...
Bred in distant woods, the clown Brings all his country airs to town; The odd address, with awkward grace, That ...
1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How ...
They sit in a row outside the kindergarten, black, red, brown, all with those brass buckles. Remember when you couldn't ...
The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
They tell me that euphoria is the feeling of feeling wonderful, well, today I feel euphorian, Today I have the ...
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