Jack And Jill (Charles Battell Loomis Poems)
(As Austin Dobson might have written it)Their pail they must fill In a crystalline springlet,Brave Jack and fair Jill.Their pail ...
(As Austin Dobson might have written it)Their pail they must fill In a crystalline springlet,Brave Jack and fair Jill.Their pail ...
In days gone by, when cows could fly And goblins rode on bears; When fairies danced upon ...
DID ever you hear of the Mulligan ball the Mulligan ball so fine Where we formed in ranks, and danced ...
'Twas early eve, the gentle rain Sprinkled the fields from heaven's domain;And distant winds, provoked, began to play,When clouds, confused, ...
H'if a yankee cutthroat 'acks 'is poor hold mother,H'it tykes a year to pack 'im h'off to jyle;'E can h'always ...
The British guns have spoken And Bill may lose his crown, The German line is broken, ...
DAWN, around packed buildings, flickering,flowered;Daylight full on sullen waters glowing,Rippled; crawling streets stirred; ships, outgoing.Slipped down seaward; wind and chimney ...
Was that the landmark? What,-the foolish wellWhose wave, low down, I did not stoop to drink,But sat and flung the ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
Even in a palace, life may be led well! So spake the imperial sage, purest of men, Marcus Aurelius. But ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here's a good place at the corner-I must stand ...
'Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of September, Which many people in Aberdeen will long remember; ...
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
All hail to the Empress of India, Great Britain's Queen-- Long may she live in health, happy and serene-- That ...
'Twas in the town of Sunderland, and in the year of 1883, That about 200 children were launch'd into eternity ...
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