Bedfordshire Ballad – IV (E W Bowling Poems)
Home, Sweet Home. I'm a Bedfordshire Chap, and Bill Stumps is my name, And to tell it don't give me ...
Poems about washin (21 Poems)
The Faltering Knight (C J Dennis Poems)
It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life, A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer ...
May Middleton’s Tam (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
De Cullahd Speekah! (Elliott Blaine Henderson Poems)
TO DR. E.A. WHITMIRE, Columbus, Ohio Mah frens an' fellah trabblers, Ah rise tonight to say, Dat ah feels mos' ...
Cow (C J Dennis Poems)
Aw, go write yer tinklin' jingle, an' yer pretty phrases mingle,Fer the mamby-pamby girl, all fluffy frill an' shinin' silk.Them's ...
The Black Watch (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
Ever heard th' black watch story?Ask th' boys o' our old crew;There's sea yarns a sight more gory, But there ...
A Guide for Poits (C J Dennis Poems)
(Compiled by the Sentimental Bloke)I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in song An' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,I ...
Washing Day (C J Dennis Poems)
The little gipsy vi'lits, they wus peepin' thro' the greenAs she come walkin' in the grass, me little wife, Doreen. ...
Jenny’s Bawbee (Alexander Boswell Poems)
I met four chaps yon birks amang, Wi' hanging lugs and faces lang; I spier'd at neighbour Bauldy ...
Little Nellie’s Pa (Alma Frances McCollum Poems)
OH! me and Nellie Barker live way down on William Street,- I'll bet you couldn't find another youngster half so ...
Oor Sis (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,That let her see ...
Time And Time (George MacDonald Poems)
As I was walkin on the strand,I spied ane auld man sitOn ane auld black rock; and aye the wavesCam ...
Grannie Grey Pow (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Auld Granny Grey Pow, Fetch the bairnies in;Bring them frae the Scaur Heid, Where they mak' sic din.Chase them frae ...
Endurance (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
YOU never hear a woman boastOf her endurance, yet I vowThe tiniest mite o' a woman hasMore courage than a ...
Philosophy (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Last night in the Baltic Tavern tapI met, Mike said, "a longshore chapAnd said, 'Don't sailorin' look queerWith all them ...
The Grand Tour (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I always wished to see the world, I 'ad no chanst before,Nor I don't suppose I should 'ave if there ...
The Cynic (David Rorie Poems)
Cauld blew the blast frae East to Wast,A blast wi' a smirr o' snaw,An' it took the doctor's guid lum ...
In Sydney Harbour (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
MRS. CARTER speaks:We came oot here in '87, A lang, lang way ower sea;A renky chap wur my Bill an* ...
A Habit (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Now most old cow punchers don't take off their hat,They nacherlly wear 'em wherever they're at.There ain't nothin' he really ...
Number 3 on the Docket (Amy Lowell Poem)
The lawyer, are you? Well! I ain't got nothin' to say. Nothin'! I told the perlice I hadn't nothin'. They ...
Loot (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...