The Borough. Letter XIX: The Parish-Clerk (George Crabbe Poems)
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.His ...
Golden lights and lengthening shadows,Flings the splendid sun declining,O'er the monastery gardenRich in flower, fruit and foliage.Through the avenue of ...
By the waters of Cam, as the shades were descending, A Fellow sat moaning his desolate lot; From his ...
I don't remember exactly when Budberg died, it was either two years ago or three. The same ...
The gilded thrones of kings may pass;The magistrate's judicial hall,The Sultan's court of tinkling brass —They all may go beyond ...
Oh, for that kindly copper I knew long years ago,A stalwart man and proper, Crime's unrelenting foe.He was for me ...
I wonder, said a friend of mine,"How many names of taste will shine"On your Subscription List?""Two hundred, Sir, perhaps, or ...
Thin as hair are the shadows of sunsetWhen they follow drawn-out every tree.On the road through the forest the post-girlHands ...
Had I an envied name and purse of gold,My friends were more than all my wants twice told;Reduced to rags ...
lemons don't let you admire yourself too much they stick from their tree like awkward thoughts demanding a truth be ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
Collating bones: I would have liked to do. Henry would have been hot at that. I missed his profession. As ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
'Time to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air,' Beggar to ...
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below 2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, 3 And wind ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
Good people of Dundee, your voices raise, And to Miss Baxter give great praise; Rejoice and sing and dance with ...
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