The shut-eye train (Eugene Field Poem)
Come, my little one, with me! There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall; In your pretty ...
Come, my little one, with me! There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall; In your pretty ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining ...
There once was a bird that lived up in a tree, And all he could whistle was "Fiddle-dee-dee" - A ...
I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and one window and one ...
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport, He played for the West ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
I thought the Train would never come -- How slow the whistle sang -- I don't believe a peevish Bird ...
Don't put up my Thread and Needle -- I'll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle -- Better ...
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The stone-built villages of England. A cathedral bottled in a pub window. Cows dispersed across fields. Monuments to kings. A ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
GAT ye me, O gat ye me, O gat ye me wi' naething? Rock an reel, and spinning wheel, A ...
FIRST when Maggie was my care, Heav'n, I thought, was in her air, Now we're married-speir nae mair, But whistle ...
WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw, An' bar the doors wi' driving snaw, An' hing us owre the ingle, I ...
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
This is going to cost you. If you really want to hear a country fiddle, you have to listen hard, ...
Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass. A flock of ...
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
Good-bye, good-bye to Summer! For Summer's nearly done; The garden smiling faintly, Cool breezes in the sun; Our Thrushes now ...
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