There was an old man of Thermopyl? (Edward Lear Poem)
There was an old man of Thermopyl?, Who never did anything properly; But they said, "If you choose, To boil ...
There was an old man of Thermopyl?, Who never did anything properly; But they said, "If you choose, To boil ...
'This was Mr Bleaney's room. He stayed The whole time he was at the Bodies, till They moved him.' Flowered ...
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, The children follow the butterflies, And, in the sweat of their upturned faces, Slash with ...
When the King of Siam disliked a courtier, he gave him a beautiful white elephant. The miracle beast deserved such ...
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
A man had a son who was an anvil. And then sometimes he was an automobile tire. I do wish ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
When he, who is the unforgiven, Beheld her first, he found her fair: No promise ever dreamt in heaven Could ...
Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like ...
I shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles Proceed from ...
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
Into her presence he gaily pranced, A very fat spark, and a bit advanced. With a Samson tread on the ...
On the long shore, lit by the moon To show them properly alone, Two lovers suddenly embraced So that their ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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