The Figurehead (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
I wish that the May Term were over, That its wearisome pleasures were o'er, And I were reclining in ...
In Antwerp, Bruges, Ostend and Ghent I used to order food with ...
Dr. Birch's young friends will reassemble to-day, Feb. 1st.White is the wold, and ghostly The dank and leafless trees;And 'M's ...
YOU ask my counsel how you ought to live;Unfit am I the needful rules to giveFor female conduct, which requires ...
I hope that where you are (I think so, too) People, including literary people, Will see you more as you ...
IWhen to his class the surgeon's skilful blade Reveals the mysteries of the inner man, So lost is science, brooding ...
Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among trees and bushes rusted by Christmas frosts, the yards and hillsides exhausted by five years ...
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then! I'm mad and disgusted With ...
the two hands of me make inimical gestures that only long after betray the one tune though they have the ...
He is said to have been the last Red man In Action. And the Miller is said to have laughed-- ...
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious Queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of ...
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if ...
My doctor, the comedian I called you every time and made you laugh yourself when I wrote this silly rhyme... ...
Think Valentine, as speeding on thy way Homeward thou hastest light of heart along, If heavily creep on one little ...
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
Whom does this stately Navy bring? O! 'tis Great Britain's Glorious King, Convey him then, ye Winds and Seas, Swift ...
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