Mally Aiken, An Old Song Revived (Hector MacNeill Poems)
'O Listen! listen and I'll tell yeHow this fair maid's play'd her part :--First she vow'd and promis'd to me,Now ...
'O Listen! listen and I'll tell yeHow this fair maid's play'd her part :--First she vow'd and promis'd to me,Now ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
DEAR BEATRICE , with pleasure I read your kind letter;On the subject, methinks, there could scarce be a better:How vivid ...
In Arthur's court Tom Thumb did live, A man of mickle might ;The best of all the table round, ...
WHO INSISTED ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITING A POEM, ONMEETING BY APPOINTMENT WITH HER AND THREEOTHER LADIES AT AN INN ON ...
"A new Courtly Sonnet, of the Ladie Greensleeves. Alas, my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously ...
Alas my loue, ye do me wrong, to cast me off discurteously: And I haue loued you so long Delighting ...
Will ze gae to the ew-bughts, Marion,And wear in the sheip wi' mee?The sun shines sweit, my Marion,But nae half ...
Live, live with me, and thou shalt see The pleasures I'll prepare for thee: What sweets the country can afford ...
AS Tam the chapman on a day, Wi'Death forgather'd by the way, Weel pleas'd, he greets a wight so famous, ...
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
THE PAWN-SHOP man knows hunger, And how far hunger has eaten the heart Of one who comes with an old ...
All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy ...
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 ...
Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
2 a.m. December, and still no mon rising from the river. My mother home from the beer garden stands before ...
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