The Archbishop And Gil Blas (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
Nah chaps, pray dooant think it's a sarmon awm praichin, If aw tell yo some nooations at's entered mi pate;For ther's ...
Bonny Yorksher! how aw love thi! Hard an rugged tho' thi face is;Ther's an honest air abaat thi, Aw ne'er find i' ...
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where ...
Now what do you want to be playing about for,Reefing and reaching your head for the bit?This is the gentlest ...
Adam and Eve together stoodAmid the crop they both were tending,While far away the feathery woodOf Eden in the wind ...
A Lay of the Loamshire Hunt Cup"Aye, squire," said Stevens, "they back him at evens; The race is all over, ...
There once was a time when I revelled in rhyme, with Valentines deluged my cousins, Translated Tibullus and ...
And you are the poet, and so you want Something--what is it?--a theme, a fancy?Something or other the Muse won't ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
Hunters are fretting, and hacks in a lather, Sportsmen arriving from left and from right; Bridle-roads bringing them, see how ...
Oor Jock's gude mither's second manAt banes was unco skilly;It cam' by heirskep frae an aunt,Leeb Tod o' Nether Tillie.An' ...
'Tis an eerie thing o'er the moor to fare When the eddies of peat-smoke justle, When the wraiths of ...
I stand aloft on the balcony, The starlings around me crying, And let like maenad my hair stream free ...
The dawnin' of prosperity Recalls (said old George Jones)When I was young, a song we sung, In none too sober ...
Hawk or shrike has done this deedOf downy feathers: rueful sight!Sweet sentimentalist, inviteYour bosom's Power to intercede.So hard it seems ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats! Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me! (For what is my life, ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
The bows glided down, and the coast Blackened with birds took a last look At his thrashing hair and whale-blue ...
Hurrah! I'm off to Finistere, to Finistere, to Finistere; My satchel's swinging on my back, my staff is in my ...
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