The Hippopotamus (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to ...
I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh, Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky; Where now alone ...
There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart só heavy, if he had a hundred years & more, & ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
1842 I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my ...
I. Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before, Love, -Only sleep! II. What so wild ...
TURN again, thou fair Eliza! Ae kind blink before we part; Rue on thy despairing lover, Can'st thou break his ...
AH, Chloris, since it may not be, That thou of love wilt hear; If from the lover thou maun flee, ...
Chorus-We'll hide the Cooper behint the door, Behint the door, behint the door, We'll hide the Cooper behint the door, ...
THERE'S Auld Rob Morris that wons in yon glen, He's the King o' gude fellows, and wale o' auld men; ...
A GUID New-year I wish thee, Maggie! Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie: Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' ...
FRIEND of the Poet, tried and leal, Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal; Alake, alake, the meikle deil Wi' ...
WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw, An' bar the doors wi' driving snaw, An' hing us owre the ingle, I ...
starving there, sitting around the bars, and at night walking the streets for hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to ...
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great ...
September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
That which he did not feel, he would not sing; What most he felt, religion it was to hide In ...
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ch? la diritta via era smarrita . ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
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