The Elden Tree (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A FEAST was spread in the Baron's hall,And loud was the merry sound,As minstrels played at lady's call,And the cup ...
A FEAST was spread in the Baron's hall,And loud was the merry sound,As minstrels played at lady's call,And the cup ...
Away thou fondling motley humorist,Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest,Consorted with these few bookes, let me lyeIn prison, ...
Man was made of social earth,Child and brother from his birth;Tethered by a liquid cordOf blood through veins of kindred ...
Late in March, when the days are growing longer And sight of early green Tells of the coming spring and suns grow ...
Lo by the "humpy" door a smockless Venus!Unblushing bronze, she shrinks not, having seen us,Though there is nought but short ...
Great honour hath Boston, the city, won of late in a glorious frayWith a handful of Portuguese fishers on that ...
He was bare-we don't want to be rude- (His condition was owing to drink)They say his condition was nood, Which amounts to the ...
DOWN at the docks--when the smoke clouds lie,Wind-ript and red, on an angry sky--Coal-dumps and derricks and piled-up bales,Tar and ...
My neighbor lives on the hill, And I in the valley dwell, My neighbor must look down on me, Must I look up?--ah, ...
Ar, wimmin! Wot a blinded fool I've been! I arsts meself, wot else could I ixpeck?I done me block complete ...
Real as a dreamWhat shall I do with this great opportunity to fly?What is the interpretation of this planet, this ...
When I'm sittin' in me dug-out wiv me rifle on me knees,An' a yowlin', 'owlin' chorus comes a-floatin' up the ...
Made at the ' Cock.' Alfred, headwaiter at the ' Cock ' * Where nowadays I dine, Go fetch me ...
Eating, drinking, smoking, laughter,Reverly and wild to-do -They shake the inn from floor to rafterWith huzzahing and halloo.There Twardowski heads ...
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
When I have passed away and am forgotten, And no one living can recall my face, When under alien sod ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
I never said I would, I only said I could do what you wished, the subtle difference should have raised ...
The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may ...
My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, ...
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
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