Execution, The : A Sporting Anecdote Hon. Mr. Sucklethumbkin’s Story (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;It was half after two,He had nothing to do,So his Lordship rang for his ...
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;It was half after two,He had nothing to do,So his Lordship rang for his ...
(To C. and M.)The day is fair, the breeze is free, The ship has crossed the bar,And you are fleeting o'er ...
SpringThe year's first poem done,with smug self confidencea haikai poet.Longer has become the daytime;a pheasant is flutteringdown onto the bridge.Yearning ...
Beautiful babby! Beautiful lad! Pride o' thi mother and joy o' thi dad!Full ov sly tricks an sweet winnin ways;-- Two cherry ...
O! mirk was the nicht, an' the hour it was late,Whan a bonnie young leddy gaed up the gate;Sae slow ...
Of war and love some poets sing, And some of fame and glory, But few there are a tribute bring To him whose ...
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, Yet strong, like every goodly thing;The discipline of arms refines, And the wave gives tempering. The ...
Alphonso, Alphonso, Alphonso and Arabella They happened to meet A man in the street,Who carried a gingham umbrella. Alphonso possessed ...
We spoke, the camp-follower and I.About us was a cold, pungent odor --Gun-powder, stale wine, wet earth, and the smell ...
The nobleman steps down from his carriage.It's a district in the mountain valley.The white shapes of old hands knit caps ...
"A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face,Of temper amorous, as the first of May,With lengths of yellow ringlet, ...
Fiercely flashes a bolt. In lurid light there stands a tower. The thunder rolls. A horseman fighting with his steed ...
Ah! the poor little blackamoor, see there he goes,And the blood gushes out from his half frozen toes,And his legs ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
WHOSE 1 is that noble, dauntless brow? And whose that eye of fire? And whose that generous princely mien, E'en ...
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
By that he ended had his ghostly sermon, The fox was well induc'd to be a parson, And of the ...
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
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