To a Captive Owl (Henry Timrod Poems)
I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,But for a most audacious wish ...
I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,But for a most audacious wish ...
Here we are, Mr. Bull, your Orange and ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
Nose to window, Still as a mouse, Watching grampa "Bank the house." Out of the barrow ...
My son! . . . Them words, jist like a blessed song,Is singin' in me 'eart the 'ole day long; ...
The conq'rin' 'ero! Me? Yes, I don't think. This mornin' when I catch the train fer 'ome,It's far more ...
I got no time fer wasters, lad, sez 'e, "Give me a man wiv grit," sez Uncle Jim.'E bores 'is ...
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul;An' all them joys ...
B. SMITH would most undoubtedly be very, very crossIf some rude person called him Jap, and yet, I'm at a ...
Here in the flamin' thick of thick of things, With Death across the way, 'n' traps What little Fritz ...
"TWO ladies fair, in lively chat; Began to talk of this and that:- Cries Celia, ""why within the door Of ...
Looks as though a cyclone hit him—Can't buy clothes that seem to fit him;An' his cheeks are rough like leather,Made ...
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd, These representatives of God, In color, way of life and evil, Should be ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
O THOU! whatever title suit thee- Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
HERE is a face that says half-past seven the same way whether a murder or a wedding goes on, whether ...
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