He’s Taken Out His Papers (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
He's taken out his papers, an' he's just like you an' me.He's sworn to love the Stars and Stripes an' ...
He's taken out his papers, an' he's just like you an' me.He's sworn to love the Stars and Stripes an' ...
You never see a decent figure'ead —Not now, Bill said,"A fiddlin' bit o' scroll-work at the bowThat's the most now ...
I, born in WeimarOf a mother who was FrenchAnd German father, a most learned professor,Orphaned at fourteen years,Became a dancer, ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
Morning -- is the place for Dew -- Corn -- is made at Noon -- After dinner light -- for ...
Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten, And therefore got on a Committee With several ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
KIND Sir, I've read your paper through, And faith, to me, 'twas really new! How guessed ye, Sir, what maist ...
WHOM will you send to London town, To Parliament and a' that? Or wha in a' the country round The ...
OF Lordly acquaintance you boast, And the Dukes that you dined wi' yestreen, Yet an insect's an insect at most, ...
Before the florid portico I watched the gamblers come and go, While by me on a bench there sat A ...
Bring the bowl which you boast, Fill it up to the brim; 'Tis to him we love most, And to ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
I, born in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen ...
The whole world on a raft! A King is here, The record of his grandeur but a smear. Is it ...
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