How The Fatuous Wish Of A Peasant Came True (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
An excellent peasant, Of character pleasant, Once lived in a hut with his wife. He was cheerful and docile, But such an old fossil You ...
An excellent peasant, Of character pleasant, Once lived in a hut with his wife. He was cheerful and docile, But such an old fossil You ...
A metropolitan rat invited His country cousin in town to dine: The country cousin replied, "Delighted." And signed himself, "Sincerely thine." The town rat ...
"And is there in God's world so drear a place Where the loud bitter cry is raised in vain?Where tears of ...
"Soa, yo're th' new parson, are yo? Well, awm fain to see yo've come;Yo'll feel a trifle strange at furst, But mak ...
'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his whileTo waste much time on the old violin, But held ...
Love and Lucre met one day,In chill November weather,And so, to wile the time away,They held discourse together.Love at first ...
You tell me you're promised a lover,My own Araminta, next week;Why cannot my fancy discoverThe hue of his coat, and ...
THERE'S a fabulous storyFull of splendor and glory,That Arabian legends transcends;Of the wealth without measure,The coffers of treasure,At the place ...
Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,In the stately Morichal,Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,Peering through the columns tall.Watching vainly for the ...
Where'er there's a life to be kindled by love,Wherever a soul to inspire,Strike this key-note of God that trembles aboveNight's ...
January.Lo, my fair! the morning lazyPeeps abroad from yonder hill; Phoebus rises, red and hazy;Frost has stopp'd the village mill.February.All ...
We condemn, with hot curses, the Hun For his piracy, perjury, pride, For his nameless atrocities done, ...
(HORACE'S ODES, III, I)I hate the common, vulgar herd! Away they scamper when I "booh" 'em!But pretty girls and nice ...
Sir, the night is darker nowAnd the wind blows stronger,Fails my heart I know not howI can go no longer.Spectres ...
Rebecca's maid: a girl come from afar,an angel, lovely, in a shift of rosesand on her face she seemed to ...
Oh, Esau, how fruitlesslyYou bartered your birthright to your brother!No pottage satisfies; no hunger is ever stilled.We but change one ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
When the molten earth seethed in its whirling cauldron nobody watched the pot from a tall wooden stool set out ...
for my friend Ruth, who urges me to make an appointment for the Sacrament of Confesson Concerning your letter in ...
A hundred years is a lot of living I've often thought. and I'll know, maybe, Some day if the gods ...
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