Old Town Types No. 3 – Mrs Dibbs (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Dibbs, the washerwoman, coming down the street,Shabby old "elastic-sides" on her funny feet As she toddles by the pub, ...
Mrs Dibbs, the washerwoman, coming down the street,Shabby old "elastic-sides" on her funny feet As she toddles by the pub, ...
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along, With every stitch drawing, the Trade blowing strong, The white caps around ...
It happened at Grandmother Polly's house, And there ...
I Love the ancient boundary-fence, That mouldering chock-and-log.When I go ride the boundary I let the old horse ...
When Grandmother Polly had married and gone, But ...
Farewell to old England for ever,Farewell to my rum culls as well,Farewell to the well-known Old Bailey.Where I used for ...
Polly's patchwork--oh, dear me!-- Truly is a sight to see. Rumpled, crumpled, soiled, and frayed-- Will the quilt be ever ...
LAST night again we saw him thereBeneath the plane-tree in the Square,Our student neighbour.He watches every evening nowOur garden tennis, ...
Mrs Dibbs - Polly Dibbs, Standing at a tub,Washing other people's clothes - Rub-Rub-Rub.Poor, old, skinny arms ...
My little maid with golden hair Comes each morning for a kiss; And I know the day will be fine ...
One Saturday opulent Ollie Thought he'd go for a ride on the trolley; But his pennies were few,-- He only ...
Our response worthy for an undeserved gift the grace of God given in the Christ, his gifts Living for Christ ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear ...
Chorus.-O lovely Polly Stewart, O charming Polly Stewart, There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May, That's half so fair ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
A-sittin' in the Bull and Pump With double gins to keep us cheery Says she to me, says Polly Crump" ...
Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters Always out of office hours running with her social ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
A dream tree, Polly's tree: a thicket of sticks, each speckled twig ending in a thin-paned leaf unlike any other ...
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