Ships And Folks (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ships are like folks, said Murphy, "the way there's good an' badAn' weak an' strong among 'em, an' steady ones ...
Ships are like folks, said Murphy, "the way there's good an' badAn' weak an' strong among 'em, an' steady ones ...
You never see a decent figure'ead —Not now, Bill said,"A fiddlin' bit o' scroll-work at the bowThat's the most now ...
No matter wheer thoo wander,Be't North, South, East or West,In hot lands or in cool lands,Thi heart will find no ...
If I could whisper you all I know, Said the Old Fool in the Wood,"You'd never say that green leaves ...
EMMA JANE, Emma Jane, did iver you seeLikes o' her! Some folk is terrible proudOf a piano an' all. I'll ...
The easy roads are crowded And the level roads are jammed;The pleasant little rivers With the drifting folks ...
Shall I woo the one or other? Both attract me—more's the pity!Pretty is the widowed mother, And the daughter, too, ...
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
Give way, give way, ye gates, and win An easy blessing to your bin And basket, by our entering in. ...
schnyder schnyder the bouncing spider had a song wound up inside her she'd had it taped on a silken spool ...
Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion, You cudn't stop him any more'n ...
He gave the solid rail a hateful kick. From far away there came an answering tick And then another tick. ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
NO song nor dance I bring from yon great city, That queens it o'er our taste-the more's the pity: Tho' ...
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow ...
It brings to mind Swift leaving a fortune to Dublin 'For the founding of a lunatic asylum - no place ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
As I pondered very weary o'er a volume long and dreary -- For the plot was void of interest; 'twas ...
All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave, That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave, For what purpose ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines -- a surf asleep on ...
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