The British Heroes, A New Poem in honour of St. George (John Grubb Poems)
The story of King Arthur old is very memorable,The number of his valiant knights, and roundness of his Table.The knights ...
The story of King Arthur old is very memorable,The number of his valiant knights, and roundness of his Table.The knights ...
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
BOB POLTER was a navvy, andHis hands were coarse, and dirty too,His homely face was rough and tanned,His time of ...
Wee heare of dire portents, and Prodigies, Sad meteours of bloud, and fire, The signes of heavenly ire, Forewarners of the Earths calamityes, Summons ...
"Soa, yo're th' new parson, are yo? Well, awm fain to see yo've come;Yo'll feel a trifle strange at furst, But mak ...
(WRITTEN FOR MR. STRUTHER'S COLLECTION OF SONGS.)IT was on a morn, when we were thrang,The kirn it crooned, the cheese ...
Home from college came the stripling, calm and cool and debonair,With a weird array of raiment and a wondrous wealth ...
Quick saddle your mare, to Auld Reikie repair,For my muse is confoundedly dull;But your pious face will inspire me with ...
Last Wen'sday, when Jupiter rose to survey The annual return and procession of May, Concluding, the lady with Venus and ...
Mr. Inkle to Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester Containing A slight Sketch of a travel'd Man--Continuation of the Ball--An Affair ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
A CUMBERLAND BALLAD And auld Robin Forbes has given them a dance!I put on my speckets to see them a' ...
Auld Johnnie Noddle sleeps through a' the day,Sleeps until the sun gangs doon an' a' the licht away;Then he waukens ...
Kaffir baby, Kaffir baby, Going to the kraal,Are you really comfortable Hanging in your shrawl?Niddle noddle, niddle noddle, ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
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