Woman Power (A P Herbert Poems)
They took the maid; they took the cook as well:Mamma said 'Splendid! Give the Germans——!The two small daughters did the ...
They took the maid; they took the cook as well:Mamma said 'Splendid! Give the Germans——!The two small daughters did the ...
Just this one day in all the year Let all be one, let all be dear; Wife, husband, child in ...
Observe this Piece, which to our Sight does bring The fittest Posture for the Swedish King; (Encompass'd, as we think, ...
First time he kissed me, he but only kissedThe finger of this hand wherewith I write;And ever since, it grew ...
Ask if I love thee? Oh, smiles cannot tellPlainer what tears are now showing too well.Had I not loved thee, ...
He has a hump like an ape on his back;He has of money a plentiful lack;And but for a gay ...
I met her on the Lachlan Side -- A darling girl I thought her, And ere I left I swore ...
"Let us now praise famous men"-- Men of little showing-- For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
Observe this Piece, which to our Sight does bring The fittest Posture for the Swedish King; (Encompass'd, as we think, ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine, Warm without Sun, and shady without rain, Fann'd by an air, that ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
The Luxury to apprehend The Luxury 'twould be To look at Thee a single time An Epicure of Me In ...
It knew no Medicine -- It was not Sickness -- then -- Nor any need of Surgery -- And therefore ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ever since, ...
I've been sittin' starin', starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots, And tryin' to convince meself it's 'im. (Look out ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
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