Lines By A Clerk (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OH! I did love her dearly,And gave her toys and rings,And I thought she meant sincerely,When she took my pretty ...
OH! I did love her dearly,And gave her toys and rings,And I thought she meant sincerely,When she took my pretty ...
Spindrift and bilge and the world turns over! What is the dross and what the gold?The snake and the lark ha' ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler ...
IWhere the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky, Where the sun dies o'er leagues of arid plain,Where the dead ...
Have I had this coffee shop long, Sir, dishing out coffee and tea?Ever since Big Ben was a wrist watch ...
The tightest man I know is an Irish Eskimo,He's selling grapes with whiskers on beneath a burning sun.And he's working ...
Said Paul Leroy to Barrow, 'Though the breach is steep and narrow, If we only gain the summit Then it's ...
RIFLEMAN, shoot me a fancy shot Straight at the heart of yon prowling vidette; Ring me a ball in ...
Rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot Straight at the heart of yon prowling vidette;Ring me a ball in the ...
I cannot give you the Metropolitan Tower;I cannot give you heaven;Nor the nine Visigoth crowns in the Cluny Museum;Nor happiness, ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
She gathered lilacs and arrayed them in her hair; tonight, she taught the wind to be free. She kept her ...
Who's she, that one in your arms? She's the one I carried my bones to and built a house that ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
We brought him in from between the lines: we'd better have let him lie; For what's the use of risking ...
From out her shabby rain-coat pocket The little Jew girl in the train Produced a dinted silver locket With pasted ...
THE relic taken, what avails the shrine? The locket, pictureless? O heart of mine, Art thou not worse than that, ...
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