The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
I am a decay'd macaroni, My lodging's up three pair of stairs; My cheeks are grown wondrously bony, And grey, ...
Once upon a midnight chilling, as I held my feet unwillingO'er a tub of scalding water, at a heat of ...
O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind,What have we done to you? How have we sinnedWandering the Earth ...
Come all you young seamen, take heed now to me,A hard case old sailorman bred to the sea,As had sailed ...
Come! all ye lads of loyalty, and listen to my tale;A story of bushranging days, I ...
A brazen Pot, by scouring vext, With Beef and Pudding still perplext,Resolv'd t' attempt a nobler Life,Urging the Jugg to ...
WHEN I am busying about,Sewing on buttons, tapes, and strings,Hanging the week's wet washing outOr ironing the children's things,Sweeping and ...
i have just been readingan advertisement of a certainroach exterminatorthe human race little knowsall the sadness itcauses in the insect ...
A hundred mares, all white! their manesLike mace-reed of the marshy plainsThick-tufted, wavy, free o' the ...
My heart's at the war with a good-natured riflemanWhere he stands firing his foemen to slay;While he was home with ...
Dark, wrinkled as a purple pink,It breathes, it nestles in that bed of moss,Still damp from love, which hugs the ...
For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, Ruinous arms; being fired, and for good, To sound the constitution ...
Lay these words into the dead man's grave next to the almonds and black cherries--- tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen He had outridden his war-wasted ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
In Springfield, Illinois IT is portentious, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A ...
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