Plenty O’ Brass (John Hartley Poems)
A'a! it's grand to ha' plenty o' brass! It's grand to be able to spendA trifle sometimes on a glass For yorsen, ...
A'a! it's grand to ha' plenty o' brass! It's grand to be able to spendA trifle sometimes on a glass For yorsen, ...
So! you preach me self-reliance, Emigration,— rights of man?So! you bid me breathe defiance As a freeborn Briton can?Break the fetter, burst ...
Written on the occasion of George Latimer's Imprisonment in Levorott streetJail, BostonO, kindle not that bigot fire,'T will bring disunion, ...
LONG live our sovereign, George the three,With honest men still compass'd be,His subjects to protect;And when our Prince shall rule ...
What is the bond, the shackle, yea,The armlet which binds thee to thy love?No mighty hand may shatter it;No tongue ...
In my breast,A wail of grief,Without any spark or flash,Alone survives,Passionless, ineffectual.A free man is in prison today,Without a spear ...
England, what have you done to make the speechMy fathers used a stranger to my lips,An offence to the ear, ...
O my Lord and my God, I have trusted in Thee.O my dear Jesus, no liberate me.In shackle and chain, ...
Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,When they are told that grace was said by me;The servants gone to ...
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
Nobody knew why it should be so;Nobody knew or wanted to know. It might have been checked had but someone ...
Ogrin the Hermit in old age set forth This tale to them that sought him in the extreme Ancient grey ...
I.Ye subjects of Britain, attend to my ...
Ye Sons of true Freedom! let's drink, and let's sing;Our Glasses charg'd high, to the Health of the King;To each ...
Time was, O Love, when I a vassal knelt,Obedient, at the footstool of thy throne;When all my life was thine--yea, ...
A word out of season Of vapid unreasonMay seem mere political twaddle at best; But this thing needs abatement ...
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! The Big Five met in the world's light as many ...
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
We crossed to the other side, the burgee of the boat ceased flapping and lagged behind like a dead wing. ...
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