A Persian Tale (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
That blessings lost, though hard to bear,Are light when weighed with carking care, —Some ill whose ever-goading spiteAffects us morning, ...
That blessings lost, though hard to bear,Are light when weighed with carking care, —Some ill whose ever-goading spiteAffects us morning, ...
Indeed, Sir Peter, I could wish, I own,That parsons would let politics alone;Plead, if they will, the customary plea,For such ...
I.Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coyTo those who woo her with too slavish knees,But makes surrender to ...
How shall it be when I go hence? Shall IBear forth the tablets of my day incisedBy my own hand,-- in ...
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
While you, my Lord, great Drury's weal sustain, Light ev'ry walk, and open all the lane, With strength of arm ...
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
The Honourable TORYPHAT addressed the meeting: 'Hem!(Prolonged applause.) Ah - Mistah Chairman, gentlemen. To stemThe tide of Socialism - rabid ...
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
'TWIXT ancient Beersheba and Dan Another such a caravan Dazed Palestine had never seen As that which bore Sabea's queen ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
Now bring me out my buckskin suit! My pouch and powder, too!We'll see if seventy-six can shoot As sixteen used ...
Here are pansies to plant round thy tomb,For thought, busy meddling thought,Recalls what thou wert, and thy doomAwakens the sadness ...
You were forever finding some new play. So when I saw you down on hands and knees I the meadow, ...
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
The door is shut. She leaves the curtained office, And down the grey-walled stairs comes trembling slowly Towards the dazzling ...
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
To hell with Government I say; I'm sick of all the piddling pack. I'd like to scram, get clean away, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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