The wooing of the southland (Eugene Field Poem)
(ALASKAN BALLAD) The Northland reared his hoary head And spied the Southland leagues away-- "Fairest of all fair brides," he ...
(ALASKAN BALLAD) The Northland reared his hoary head And spied the Southland leagues away-- "Fairest of all fair brides," he ...
I'm a beautiful red, red drum, And I train with the soldier boys; As up the street we come, Wonderful ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
To nothing fitter can I thee compare Than to the son of some rich penny-father, Who, having now brought on ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly; ...
Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstance -- 'Tis well the name ...
I saw that the Flake was on it But plotted with Time to dispute -- "Unchanged" I urged with a ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
An honest Tear Is durabler than Bronze -- This Cenotaph May each that dies -- Reared by itself -- No ...
I held a Jewel in my fingers -- And went to sleep -- The day was warm, and winds were ...
I never told the buried gold Upon the hill -- that lies -- I saw the sun -- his plunder ...
Is there anything which isn't made in China? The answer is. of course there is, the question was rhetorical, a ...
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
I. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and ...
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
DOST thou not rise, indignant shade, And smile wi' spurning scorn, When they wha wad hae starved thy life, Thy ...
WI' braw new branks in mickle pride, And eke a braw new brechan, My Pegasus I'm got astride, And up ...
LIFE ne'er exulted in so rich a prize, As Burnet, lovely from her native skies; Nor envious death so triumph'd ...
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
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