The Song of the Shirt (Thomas Hood Poem)
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and ...
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and ...
WHAT pleasure to me A bridegroom would be! When married we are, They call us mamma. No need then to ...
Looking down, at these hands hands that can sew, stitch together the scraps of cloth, the bits of thread to ...
I can't do much; little money I have no husband to provide, no sons, just a little. My gifts so ...
From the port of Joppa, down below the cliffs the place Jonah left, trying to escape to the sea before ...
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
I put two yellow peepers in an owl. Wow. I fix the grin of Crocodile. Spiv. I sew the slither ...
Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content, Thou knowest of no strange continent; Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep A gentle motion ...
Don't put up my Thread and Needle -- I'll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle -- Better ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with ...
As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with ...
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
O LADY Mary Ann looks o'er the Castle wa', She saw three bonie boys playing at the ba', The youngest ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
they found him walking along the freeway all red in front he had taken a rusty tin can and cut ...
First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, A ...
Some men, some men Cannot pass a Book shop. (Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.) Some ...
The Half-Soled-Boots-With-Toecaps-Child Walked out into the street And splashed in all the pubbles till She had such shocking feet The ...
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