To Mithers (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hear me, mithers, oh! mithers, Wives o' puir workin' men,Wha toil baith late an' early— Little to spare or spen';Weel ken I, ...
Hear me, mithers, oh! mithers, Wives o' puir workin' men,Wha toil baith late an' early— Little to spare or spen';Weel ken I, ...
Now McEvoy was altar-boyAs long as I remember;He was, bedad, a crabbed lad,And sixty come December.Faith, no one dared to ...
My father had the gay good tunes, the like you'd seldom hear,A whole day could he whistle them, an' thin ...
When you hear at night de cows a lowin',An' dogs a howlin' out der mournful soun',I tell you now you ...
You ought'er come over to our yard.Oh boy! But we have fun!We've got a dandy place to playAn' when our ...
Der's no use bein' scared o' cungers,An' lettin' black cats turn you back,You jus' go on about your business,And let ...
It's little I can tell o' classic things,Homer an Dante strangers are to me,That Troy an Tyre wis places ower ...
1.-THE NOMINATIONVHEN ash de var vas ober, und Beace her shnow-wice vings Vas vafin' o'er de coondry (in shpodts) like ...
I. PROLOGUE.HERR SCHNITZERL make a ph'losopede, Von of de pullyest kind; It vent mitout a vheel in front, And hadn't ...
Now, be the Hokey Fly! sez Peter Begg."Suppose 'e comes 'ome with a wooden leg. Suppose 'e isn't fit to ...
This ev'nin' I was sittin' wiv Doreen, Peaceful an' 'appy wiv the day's work done,Watchin', be'ind the orchard's bonzer green, ...
A MERMAID'S not a human thing, An' courtin' sich is folly; Of flesh an' blood I'd rather sing, What ain't ...
'Twas up at the tree near the heid o' the glenI keppit a tinkler chiel,The cauld wind whistled his auld ...
Knockin' about (said Benny, the Tough) By the Rocks an' Woolloomooloo,Oh, I was a low-brow, right enough, And a bit ...
Last night in the Baltic Tavern tapI met, Mike said, "a longshore chapAnd said, 'Don't sailorin' look queerWith all them ...
Once there was a boy who neverTore his clothes, or hardly ever,Never made his sister mad,Never whipped fer bein' bad,Never ...
We used to run a cow-ranch, In all that old term meant,But all our ancient glories In recent ...
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
THE GOSSOON It's bleedin'! It's bleedin'! THE OULD WOMAN An' shure, me lad, 't is bleedin'; But come, ...
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