Billy Bumble’s Bargain (John Hartley Poems)
Young Billy Bumble bowt a pig, Soa aw've heeard th' neighbors say;An monny a mile he had to trig One sweltin' summer ...
Young Billy Bumble bowt a pig, Soa aw've heeard th' neighbors say;An monny a mile he had to trig One sweltin' summer ...
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
"That little dog 'ud scratch at that doorAnd go on a-whinin' two hours beforeHe'd ever let up! _There!_--Jane: Let him ...
Ho! I'm going back to whereWe were youngsters.--Meet me there,Dear old barefoot chum, and weWill be as we used to ...
Sweet little myth of the nursery story-- Earliest love of mine infantile breast,Be something tangible, bloom in thy glory Into existence, as ...
The finch trills in the apple treeHis: Tiriliree!A frog climbs slowly up to him,Up to the treetop's leafy rimAnd puffs ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
Rose of Lancaster.* * * * *Encircled by a blooming bandOf peerless damsels, fair and young,Reclined yon canopy beneath,How bright ...
ADVIS m'est que j'oy regreterLa belle qui fut h?aulmiere,Soy jeune fille soushaicterEt parler en telle maniere:'Ha! viellesse felonne et fiere,Pourquoi ...
TO N. H. FAIRBANKS. Sistah! Bress Gawd! Thot I'd drap in jes' er while, See ef yo's er gittin' 'long ...
To DR. SHERMAN LEACH, Columbus, Ohio. Was yo' at de dance an' 'sepshun? At siss Poodle's Chewsday night? Didn't git ...
TO DANIEL J. RYAN AND C. H. CARPENTER, Columbus, Ohio. Lookin' nice to-night, Miss Liza, Yo's out dressed 'em all ...
TO DR. F. W. WHITE. Sad am de night. Now de solemn tone Creeps fum de erf to de heaben's ...
I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Where roaring on the ledges the summer ...
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with ...
As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
THOU! whose sublime poetic art Can pierce the pulses of the heart, Can force the treasur'd tear to flow In ...
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