Marksman Sam (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
Everyone, after all, was killed: he who was crucified, he who died without skin, he who died without a head, ...
The blue forest, chilled and blue, like the lips of the dead if the lips were gone. The year has ...
The birches stand in their beggar's row: Each poor tree Has had its wrists nearly Torn from the clear sleeves ...
My neighbor was a biker, a pusher, a dog and wife beater. In bad dreams I killed him and once, ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side, Buffet, and scoff, scourge, and crucify me, For I have ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
There wasn't room for sympathy, the epicentre moved too rapidly for that and even when we knew the anger of ...
It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
The Wind is ghosting around the house tonight and as I lean against the door of sleep I begin to ...
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying. I said, "Wait on, wait on, while I ride ...
The Sheep adorns the landscape rural And is both singular and plural- It gives grammarians the creeps To hear one ...
"When I hit her on the head, it was good, and then I did it to her a couple of ...
Here's a girl from a dangerous town She crops her dark hair short so that less of her has to ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right. (Hilaire Belloc)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
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