“That Little Dog” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"That little dog 'ud scratch at that doorAnd go on a-whinin' two hours beforeHe'd ever let up! _There!_--Jane: Let him ...
"That little dog 'ud scratch at that doorAnd go on a-whinin' two hours beforeHe'd ever let up! _There!_--Jane: Let him ...
Say, I've got a little brother,Never teased to have him, nuther, But he's here;They just went ahead and bought him,And, last ...
Want to see me, hey, old chap?Want to curl up in my lap, Do yer, Jim?See him sit and purr and ...
Aw wodn't care to live at all, Unless aw could be jolly!Let sanctimonious skinflints call All recreation folly.Aw still believe this world ...
Once der was a meetin' in de wilderness,All de critters of creation dey was dar;Brer Rabbit, Brer 'Possum, Brer Wolf, ...
My son! . . . Them words, jist like a blessed song,Is singin' in me 'eart the 'ole day long; ...
If ole Pharaoh, King of Egyp', 'ad been gazin' on the scene 'E'd' ave give the A.I.F. a narsty nameWhen ...
Blokes ~ 'ErbDo you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort ...
Young friend! . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus. 'E sees me first, an' 'as ...
Wot's in a name? — she sez . . . An' then she sighs, An' clasps 'er little 'ands, an' ...
I know I'm dull. I know I got a brain That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.I don't arst for bokays: ...
'Er pore dear Par. she sez, "'e kept a store";An' then she weeps an' stares 'ard at the floor. "'Twas ...
'Oo is that girl, sez Digger Smith,That never seems to bother with No blokes: the bint with curly 'air? I've ...
I met four chaps yon birks amang, Wi' hanging lugs and faces lang; I spier'd at neighbour Bauldy ...
JACK BOWLIN wuz the joker's name, A sailor chap wuz 'e, Who left his ship, the Golden Flame ,To run ...
Do you know Fred? Now there's a man to know These days when politics are in the air, An' ...
" THERE was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was bound, And he took up his quarters into a ...
When baby wakes of mornings,Then it's wake, ye people all!For another dayOf song and playHas come at our darling's call!And, ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
When baby wakes of mornings, Then it's wake, ye people all! For another day Of song and play Has come ...
O MEIKLE thinks my luve o' my beauty, And meikle thinks my luve o' my kin; But little thinks my ...
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