The Splendid Shilling (James Bramston Poems)
Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife, In silken or in leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling He nor hears ...
Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife, In silken or in leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling He nor hears ...
OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIRA MATHEMATICAL STORYFACTS respecting an old arm-chair.At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there.Seems but little ...
Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Doc Sifers is my favorite, jes' take him up ...
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
All Night I weepe, all Day I cry, Ay me,I still doe wish, though yet deny, ay me;I sigh, I ...
I'm standin' at the corner uv the Lane -- The Land called Spadgers -- waiting fer 'is jills.The night's come ...
The conq'rin' 'ero! Me? Yes, I don't think. This mornin' when I catch the train fer 'ome,It's far more ...
My sort, she sez, "don't meet no fairy prince." I can't 'elp 'earin' part uv wot was said ...
Why stone the crows! 'e sez. "I like 'er style, But alwiz, some'ow, women 'ave appearedSet fer to 'old me ...
Come! all ye lads of loyalty, and listen to my tale;A story of bushranging days, I ...
The Currency Lads may fill their glasses,And drink to the health of the Currency Lasses;But the lass I adore, the ...
Come all ye wild colonials And listen to my tale;A story of bushrangers' deeds I will to you unveil.'Tis of ...
Owd John's got past his work, said they,Last week as ever was — "don't payTo send by him. ...
I'm one of the has-beens, a shearer I mean;I once was a ringer and used to shear clean;I could make ...
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport, He played for the West ...
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We ...
Captain O'Hare was a mariner brave; He refused to abandon his ship; A hero, he sleeps in a watery grave- ...
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
There's never a stone at the sleeper's head, There's never a fence beside, And the wandering stock on the grave ...
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