Vignette – XXVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...
But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.Yet holding her ...
Now Pat Ahearne, of IngleburnUpon the Castlereagh,Was flush of cash and very 'flash'As shearer-persons say.At Yankee grab his luck was ...
HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.My pride forbids it ever should ...
Sin Leeds wor a city it puts on grand airs,An aw've noa wish to bother wi' others' affairs;'At they've mich ...
Never fear! For the crimson flag that proudly waves in these dawns, shall never fade,Before the last fiery hearth that ...
He fell, a slave of tinsel-honour,A sacrifice to slander's lust;The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,Bowed on his wounded breast in ...
Of those now here with us, do not detain anyone who is unwilling to remain,Nor show the door to anyone ...
WHAT changes time's swift motion brings!What sad reverse of human things!What once was valu'd, highly priz'd,Is in a few short ...
Write a poem, dunderhead, That we may have new dresses(Is it not disgraceful how The old man takes caresses?)Take them to the ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
I"Toil! toil! toil!"What curse is this sent from the hand of God,That man must work till placed beneath the sod, ...
With sagest craft Arachne workedHer web, and at a corner lurked,Awaiting what should plump her soon,To case it in the ...
Which I wish to remark,And my language is plain,That for plots that are darkAnd not always in vain,The heathen Pass-ee ...
The filthy beast! And is he here again, With his foul slobbering mouth and shuffling feet, To taint the atmosphere ...
All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mineAnd to know such pretending is disgraceful.But what can I ...
Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenlyit started raining and snowingand you said it was hailingbut hailing ...
There was an old bugger called God,who got a young virgin in pod.This disgraceful behaviourbegot Christ our Saviour,who was nailed ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mine And to know such pretending is disgraceful. But what ...
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