A Yarn Of Dan’s (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Now 'ere's a yarn as is true, said Dan, "An' you can't say that o' most:I was in the packet ...
Now 'ere's a yarn as is true, said Dan, "An' you can't say that o' most:I was in the packet ...
Yes, I've sat in the summer twilight,Wiv a nice girl, 'and in 'and,But I've thought even then of the shell ...
I got the oil: too right. A cove called Shane. Yes; ole Bill Shane. You've 'eard of 'im, of course.Big ...
I'ad the money in me 'and!Fair dinkum! Right there, by the stand. I tole me wife at breakfus' time, ...
Last night in the Baltic Tavern tapI met, Mike said, "a longshore chapAnd said, 'Don't sailorin' look queerWith all them ...
You can tyke h'it from me, 'e's as cool as a cucumber,Never goes balmy h'or loses 'is 'ead,Nothing h'at all ...
The men are talking peace at 'ome, but 'ere we're talking fight,There's many a little debt we've got to square;A ...
Cooee! Well, Dig, I s'pose you've 'eard that row Up in ole Blighty some ten year ago.An' it is up ...
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on ...
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might ...
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
Peace is declared, and I return To 'Ackneystadt, but not the same; Things 'ave transpired which made me learn The ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi, Gettin' down an' shovin' in the sun; An' you might 'ave ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
You've 'eard 'ow young Albert Ramsbottom, In the Zoo up at Blackpool one year, With a stick and 'orse's 'ead ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom At the zoo up at Blackpool one year With a stick with an `orse's ...
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers (I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and ...
My stretcher is one scarlet stain, And as I tries to scrape it clean, I tell you wot -- I'm ...
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