The Auld Wife (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
PART IThe auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing ...
PART IThe auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
IT isn't the blue in the skies, Nor the song of the whispering trees, The light in a fair maiden's ...
The hedge on the left, and the trench on the right,And the whispering, rustling wood between,And who knows where in ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
dodona oak (the tree of life) sheds leaves nutritious-which feeds blood and mind today there's not a jot (from which ...
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble ...
I hadn't had the 'flu in ages, avoided all those awful places fraught of gritty eyes and splitting heads, patrons ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
alas our good kaspar is dead. who will bury a burning flag in the wings of the clouds who will ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
In London City I evade For charming Burlington Arcade - For thee in youth I met a maid By name ...
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture ...
(for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace) All the lizards are asleep-- perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles, each milky lid ...
Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it ...
Now when I have a cold I am careful with my cold, I consult a physician And I do as ...
That slim creek out of the sky the dried-blood western gum tree is all stir in its high reaches: its ...
Bix to Buxtehude to Boulez, The little white dog on the Victor label Listens long and hard as he is ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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