Bill and Joe (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
Music, thou queen of heaven, care-charming spell, That strik'st a stillness into hell; Thou that tam'st tigers, and fierce storms, ...
Back in Jessie's forefather's land in the cottage where Burns was born the places where Tam lived where his words ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Chorus.-An' O for ane an' twenty, Tam! And hey, sweet ane an' twenty, Tam! I'll learn my kin a rattlin' ...
WHAT ails ye now, ye lousie bitch To thresh my back at sic a pitch? Losh, man! hae mercy wi' ...
"O CAM ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man? Or were ye at the ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
MY heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie, Some counsel unto me come len', To anger them a' is a pity, But ...
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
HAS auld Kilmarnock seen the deil? Or great Mackinlay 1 thrawn his heel? Or Robertson 2 again grown weel, To ...
AS Tam the chapman on a day, Wi'Death forgather'd by the way, Weel pleas'd, he greets a wight so famous, ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Immortal Robert Burns of Ayr, There's but few poets can with you compare; Some of your poems and songs are ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli, Ingele, proh sero cognite, rapte cito? Num satis Hybernum defendis pellibus Astrum, Qui modo ...
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