The Sailor’s Consolation (Charles Dibdin Poems)
One night came on a hurricane,The sea was mountains rolling, When Barney Buntline turned his quid,And said to Billy Bowling: ...
One night came on a hurricane,The sea was mountains rolling, When Barney Buntline turned his quid,And said to Billy Bowling: ...
Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd, Less prone to value things of little worthIn failing to wax wrath about ...
D at tuba caelo signum sublato leone,E t fiunt subito tenebrae cum caeli fragore.S ummittit oculos Dominus, ut terra tremescat,A ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
The little quids, the million quids, The everywhere, everything, always quids, The atoms of the Monoton- Each turned three essences ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Here is a silence I had not hoped for This side of paradise, I am an old believer In nature's ...
Our cowman, old Ed, hadn't much in his head, And lots of folks though him a witling; But he wasn't ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
When I was with a Shakespeare show I played the part of Guildenstern, Or Rosenkrantz - at least I know ...
A-sittin' in the Bull and Pump With double gins to keep us cheery Says she to me, says Polly Crump" ...
I've been sittin' starin', starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots, And tryin' to convince meself it's 'im. (Look out ...
Three Triangles TRIANGLE ONE My husband put some poison in my beer, And fondly hoped that I would drink it ...
Now look, you see, it's this way like, You cross the broken bridge And run the crick down till you ...
A man once read with mind surprised Of the way that people were "hypnotised"; By waving hands you produced, forsooth, ...
Pro Bono Publico Went out the streets to scan, And marching to and fro He met a seedy man, Who ...
That deaf old man With his hand to his ear-- His hand to hi head stood out like a shell, ...
Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli, Ingele, proh sero cognite, rapte cito? Num satis Hybernum defendis pellibus Astrum, Qui modo ...
Nempe sic innumero succrescunt agmine libri, Saepia vix toto ut jam natet una mari. Fortius assidui surgunt a vulnere praeli: ...
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