Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
The story of King Arthur old is very memorable,The number of his valiant knights, and roundness of his Table.The knights ...
Permit me, Reader, to make my bow,And allowMe to humbly commend to your tender merciesThe hero of these simple verses.By ...
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;It was half after two,He had nothing to do,So his Lordship rang for his ...
Now Pat Ahearne, of IngleburnUpon the Castlereagh,Was flush of cash and very 'flash'As shearer-persons say.At Yankee grab his luck was ...
IN David's Psalms an oversightByles found one morning at his tea.Alas! that ...
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading ...
This is the Wiggledywasticus, Very remarkable beast.Nose to tail an eighth of a mile;Took him an acre or two to smile;Took ...
Beneath the watersGreen and coolThe mermaids keepA swimming school.The oysters trot;The lobsters prance;The dolphins comeTo join the dance.But the jellyfishWho ...
This is the tale of NortonWho vowed a vow, by zounds,To catch the varlet GardinerAnd win a thousand pounds. "Come ...
"Teapots and Quails,Snuffers and Snails,Set him a sailingand see how he sails!..Mitres and Beams,Thimbles and Creams,Set him a screamingand hark! ...
The miller by the shore am I, A man o' despert sense;I've fotty different soorts o' ways O' ...
Lobsters haven't any feet, But they have lots of claws; Yet lobster meat is good to eat, ...
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...
I Who would be A merman gay, Singing alone, Sitting alone, With a mermaid's knee, For instance--hey-- For a throne? ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
His face was like a lobster red, His legs were white as mayonnaise: "I've had a jolly lunch," he said, ...
THE BALLOONS hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens. They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and ...
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