Blue Beard (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
Once on a time there was a man so hideous and ugly That little children shrank and tried to ...
Once on a time there was a man so hideous and ugly That little children shrank and tried to ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
_A lay sung in the Temple of Minerva Girtanensis_. I Aemilia Girtonensis, By the Nine Muses swore That the ...
A beggar sat by the King's highway, O, but the road was long! His hair was black and his beard ...
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
I quivered. I flared up, and then was extinguished. I shook. I had made a proposal - but late, Too ...
The devil to Bacchus said, one day,In a scowling, growling, petulant way,As he came from earth to hell:"There's a soul ...
They put him in jail for the thing he'd done, For that was the law they'd made; They turned the ...
428Taking up the fair Ideal,Just to cast her downWhen a fracture-we discover-Or a splintered Crown-Makes the Heavens portable-And the Gods-a ...
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
To you who'd read my songs of War And only hear of blood and fame, I'll say (you've heard it ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture -- we discover -- Or a splintered ...
Again, his friend's death made the man sit still and freeze insideâ?"his daughter won first priceâ?" his wife scowled over ...
Up in my garret bleak and bare I tilted back on my broken chair, And my three old pals were ...
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
Catch, my Uncle Jack said and oh I caught this huge apple red as Mrs Kelly's bum. It's red as ...
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