The Old and Young Courtier (Anonymous British Poems)
An old song made by an aged old pate,Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a greate estate,That kept a ...
An old song made by an aged old pate,Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a greate estate,That kept a ...
Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, A fond desire which floats before our eyes;With lurid aberration, feverish,-- We ...
Old tales of valour fire our bloodBut this, the bravest deed I knowIs written of our modern times,No myth of ...
Go, patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see,'Bout danger, and fear, and the like;A water-tight boat and good sea-room ...
(NEW JERSEY, 1780)Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on the heightLay the Hessians encamped. By that church on the ...
I never heard him speak a kindly word, My tears were answered with a savage oath,He drank what we ...
"Must I die so soon? ah, far away By blue Ohio's shore,A little group waits patiently Till this sad war ...
'E was warned agin' 'er -- That's what made 'im look; She was warned agin' 'im -- That is why ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights; We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as ...
I shared a word of grace, in the sanctuary last night of a client who is seeking looking to change ...
Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions When George's Grandmamma was told That George ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music ...
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
A chaplain in the army, A chaplain in the prisons, An exhorter in Spoon River, Drunk with divinity, Spoon River ...
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