Nell Flaherty’s Drake (Anonymous Poems)
MY NAME it is Nell, right candid I tell,And I live near a dell I ne'er will deny,I had a ...
MY NAME it is Nell, right candid I tell,And I live near a dell I ne'er will deny,I had a ...
An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire,Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire,Out of zeal for his country, and ...
VVEll dy'de the World, that we might liue to seeThis World of wit, in his Anatomee:No euill wants his good: ...
Oh yes I knew him, I spent years with him,with his golden and stony substance,he was a man who was ...
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
THE BROTHERS.Than old George Fletcher, on the British coastDwelt not a seaman who had more to boast:Kind, simple and sincere--he ...
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
Now Sym was a Glug; and 'tis mentioned soThat the tale reads perfectly plain as we go. In his veins ...
I SING the family party that once we used to know, The old time family parties we gave so long ...
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand- ...
And the old men, supervising grown grandsons, nephews, any man a boy given this chance of making a new sidewalk ...
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
Uncle Ray! Uncle Ray! Uncle Ray's here! Excited voices, Greeting my arrival home. Shouts of my Nieces and nephews, Bearing ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
To Time Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, From age to age what thou hast sought to see, One ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must ...
Let's straighten this out, my little man, And reach an agreement if we can. I entered your door as an ...
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