Hi-spy (Eugene Field Poem)
Strange that the city thoroughfare, Noisy and bustling all the day, Should with the night renounce its care, And lend ...
Strange that the city thoroughfare, Noisy and bustling all the day, Should with the night renounce its care, And lend ...
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each with a bow and arrows at his ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what's called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in ...
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
It were after the Battle of Crecy- The foe all lay dead on the ground- And King Edward went out ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
This quiet Dust was Gentleman and Ladies And Lads and Girls -- Was laughter and ability and Sighing And Frocks ...
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells, And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask beneath ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
AS I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'flow'r scents the dery air, Where the howlet mourns in her ...
UP wi' the carls o' Dysart, And the lads o' Buckhaven, And the kimmers o' Largo, And the lasses o' ...
Chorus-Bannocks o' bear meal, Bannocks o' barley, Here's to the Highlandman's Bannocks o' barley! WHA, in a brulyie, will First ...
IN comin by the brig o' Dye, At Darlet we a blink did tarry; As day was dawnin in the ...
KIND Sir, I've read your paper through, And faith, to me, 'twas really new! How guessed ye, Sir, what maist ...
"O CAM ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man? Or were ye at the ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
A' THE lads o' Thorniebank, When they gae to the shore o' Bucky, They'll step in an' tak a pint ...
O KENMURE'S on and awa, Willie, O Kenmure's on and awa: An' Kenmure's lord's the bravest lord That ever Galloway ...
HERE'S to him that grows it, Drink, lads, drink! That lays it in and mows it, Clink, jugs, clink! To ...
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