Paddy’s Letter, 1857 (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better, But now I have somebody's luck and my ...
I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better, But now I have somebody's luck and my ...
The fibres of the white-flowered rush Are with the white grass bound. So do the two together go, ...
Air — "The County Meeting."Ye'er welcome, leddies, ane and a',Ye'er welcome to our County Ha';Sae weel ye look when buskit ...
Some saw in him a Scottish wreck; some said that he was mad;A few proclaimed his genius, but all agreed ...
The Currency Lads may fill their glasses,And drink to the health of the Currency Lasses;But the lass I adore, the ...
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street,A gentleman Irish mighty odd;He had a brogue both rich and sweet,And to rise in ...
" ""When did your ship dock, Jim Dale, That you come so late this night? Long since I heard the ...
When Mrs. Malone got a letter from PatShe started to read it aloud in her flat."Dear Mary," it started, "I ...
OH, swinging down the Western Main, And roaring round the Horn, We'll bring her to the docks again With California's ...
I used to be a peaceful chap as didn't ask for trouble,An' as for rows an' fightin', why, I'd mostly ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
Spring: A hill without a name Veiled in morning mist. The beginning of autumn: Sea and emerald paddy Both the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
WHEN Guilford good our pilot stood An' did our hellim thraw, man, Ae night, at tea, began a plea, Within ...
Because my overcoat's in pawn, I choose to take my glass Within a little bistro on The rue du Montparnasse; ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
To Policeman G. the Inspector said: "When you pass the 'shops' you must turn your head; If you took a ...
Although I have never learned to mow I suddenly found myself half-way through last year's pea-sticks and cauliflower stalks in ...
My banks are all furnished with rags, So thick, even Freddy can't thin 'em; I've torn up my old money-bags, ...
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