The Double Transformati (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Secluded from domestic strife,Jack Book-worm led a college life;A fellowship at twenty-fiveMade him the happiest man alive;He drank his glass ...
Secluded from domestic strife,Jack Book-worm led a college life;A fellowship at twenty-fiveMade him the happiest man alive;He drank his glass ...
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
Are you struck with her figure and face? How lucky you happened to meetWith none of the gossipping race, Who dwell in ...
This trumpeter of nothingness, employedTo keep our reason dull and null and void.This man of wind and froth and flux ...
Now heaven in mercy be kind to the wretches Who stay on the earth like this Mrs. Merdle! More wretched than ever ...
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
Fair Cloe! when thou deign'st to come,To any neighb'ring Rout or Drum;The Belles who shin'd before so bright,Dazzl'd each Petit ...
JUST where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations; Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont ...
ON SEEING IT ENTANGLED ON THE TABLE OF A NEGLIGENT FEMALE. ON Celia's toilet, spread with trinkets gay,A skein of ...
This trumpeter of nothingness, employedTo keep our reason dull and null and void.This man of wind and froth and flux ...
I never heard him speak a kindly word, My tears were answered with a savage oath,He drank what we ...
We know those little country pubs, By cross-road and by creek,Where faithfully the landlord scrubs His counter once a week,And ...
You would not believe, would youThat I came from good Welsh stock?That I was purer blooded than the white trash ...
The Lady Poverty was fair:But she has lost her looks of late,With change of times and change of air.Ah slattern, ...
"ROWSES, Rowses! Penny a bunch!" they tell you-- Slattern girls in Trafalgar, eager to sell you. Roses, roses, red in ...
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth ...
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
When my eyes are weeds, And my lips are petals, spinning Down the wind that has beginning Where the crumpled ...
You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock? That I was purer blooded than the ...
(Being a Chant of the American Soap-Box and the Russian Revolution.) O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in ...
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