Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
? Maxime du CampIFor the child, in love with globe, and stamps,the universe equals his vast appetite.Ah! How great the ...
OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Illustrious fathers of the human race, Of you, the song of your ...
Smoking lately in my "Funny," as I'm wont, beneath the bank, Listening to Cam's rippling murmurs thro' the ...
Let penny-a-liners columns pour Of turgid efflorescence, Describe in language that would floor Our Cayleys, Rouths, and Besants, ...
I'm hungry, naked, homeless, through,Because of loads I had to carry;You've spat on me, and hit me - marry,A dog ...
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleepI wake to hear outside my window-paneThe uncurbed fury of the wild spring ...
So hot shines the sun upon Nile's yellow stream, That the palm-trees can save us no more from his beam;Now ...
A's my new policy called Annexation; B is the Bother it causes the nation. C is Lord Chelmsford, engaged with ...
A mysterious naked man has been reportedon Cranston Avenue. The police are performingthe usual ceremonies with coloured lights and sirens.Almost ...
When you see any one with tears bemoanThe loss of goods or absence of a son,Whom he perhaps thinks drown'd ...
At Dingle, upon sand and shingle, Softly the ripples curve and creep; Without the white-caps meet and mingle, ...
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
The whole nation the people of their country all of them swept away shaken by the disasters Reeling from the ...
In the morning prayers for the world an end to suffering, of famine and war, disasters and disinterest, in greed ...
Her crying, her anguish so real, understanding so well Her cries in the wilderness her children not answering a nightmare ...
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know that the universe is ever-expanding, inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies swallowed by galaxies, ...
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
A mysterious naked man has been reported on Cranston Avenue. The police are performing the usual ceremonies with coloured lights ...
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