A Nautical Ballad (Charles Edward Carryl Poems)
A capital ship for an ocean trip,Was the "Walloping Window-blind";No gale that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captain's mind.The ...
A capital ship for an ocean trip,Was the "Walloping Window-blind";No gale that blew dismayed her crewOr troubled the captain's mind.The ...
A table cloth that's slightly soiled Where greasy little hands have toiled; The napkins kept in silver rings, And only ...
There was a boy named Grumble Tone, who ran away to sea."I'm sick of things on land," he said, "as ...
The hippo from the banks of Nile,How wide and winning is the smileWith which he does his simple bestIn hippo ...
he summer nests uncovered by autumn wind,Some torn, others dislodged, all dark,Everyone sees them: low or high in tree,Or hedge, ...
It was an actor, seedy, sad, Who stood within the gate;Long weary marches he had had - He had not ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Said the table to the chair, "You can scarcely be aware How I suffer from the heat And from blisters ...
I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and ...
Robin Hood is an outlaw bold Under the greenwood tree; Bird, nor stag, nor morning air Is more at large ...
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
OF Lordly acquaintance you boast, And the Dukes that you dined wi' yestreen, Yet an insect's an insect at most, ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
There was wine in a cup of gold and a girl of fifteen from Wu, her eyebrows painted dark and ...
My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house ...
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