The Fighting Merchantmen (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
Cuddle doon an' sleep fu' soun', Mammy's bairnie saft an' cozie;Pit ae han' my neck aroun', An' the ither in ...
Baby sits upon the floor, Baby's scarce a twelvemonth old;Baby laughs, and _goo-goos_ o'erMemories how a babe of yore Humbled ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
It is truly as lucid as lucid can be; It is plain as the nose on your faceThough the tactics ...
Gi'e me a lass with a lump of land, And we for life shall gang thegither; ...
When men of shallow heads themselves advanceAbove their usual pitch of ignorance,To talk of maxims and of rules; forbearTo interpose ...
I speak this poem now with grave and level voice In praise of autumn, of the far-horn-winding fall. I praise ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief -- To re-endure a Day -- We thought the Mighty Funeral -- ...
Through those old Grounds of memory, The sauntering alone Is a divine intemperance A prudent man would shun. Of liquors ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
ORTHODOX! orthodox, who believe in John Knox, Let me sound an alarm to your conscience: A heretic blast has been ...
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
O but we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, ...
Mine own John Poynz, since ye delight to know The cause why that homeward I me draw, And flee the ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Oh darling Eric, why did you For my fond affection sue, And then with surgeons artful aid Transform yourself into ...
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and ...
Wal, Thanksgivin' do be comin' round. With the price of turkeys on the bound, And coal, by gum! Thet were ...
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