Execution, The : A Sporting Anecdote Hon. Mr. Sucklethumbkin’s Story (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;It was half after two,He had nothing to do,So his Lordship rang for his ...
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;It was half after two,He had nothing to do,So his Lordship rang for his ...
In that building, long and low,With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk,Human spiders spin and spin,Backward down ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
Observe ye not yon high cliff's brow,Up which a wanderer clambers slow,'T is by a hoary ruin crown'd,Which rocks when ...
Queen of queens, oh lady mine, You who say you love me, Here's a cup of crimson ...
Father, I gave my gold and gear, Cattle and goods full tale,To save my soul from utter dark: ...
IN the worn and dusty annalsOf our old and quiet town,With its streets of leafy beauty.And its houses quaint and ...
THAT battle-toil bade he at burg to announce,at the fort on the cliff, where, full of sorrow,all the morning earls ...
In Dublin town I was brought up, in that city of great fame. My decent friends and parents, they will ...
THERE was no west, there was no east, No star abroad for eye to see;And Norman spurred his jaded beast Hard by ...
O, listen for a moment lads, and hear me tell my tale-how o'er the sea from England's shore I was ...
Swing up the traitor! Let him die!Truth, honor and sincerityAre treason to Virginia's laws,Are fatal to Virginia's cause,And he who ...
THE mother by the gallows-tree, The gallows-tree, the gallows-tree, (While the twitching body mocked the sun) Lifted to Heaven her ...
Hark! in the still night. Who goes there?"Fifteen dead men" Why do they wait?"Hasten, comrade, death is so fair"Now comes ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
FAREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong, The wretch's destinie! M'Pherson's time will not be long On yonder gallows-tree. Chorus.-Sae rantingly, ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
A wild and woeful race he ran Of lust and sin by land and sea; Until, abhorred of God and ...
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