Some Account of a New Play (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
'The play's the thing!'-- Hamlet.Tavistock Hotel, Nov. 1839.Dear Charles,-- In reply to your letter, and Fanny's,Lord Brougham, it appears, isn't ...
'The play's the thing!'-- Hamlet.Tavistock Hotel, Nov. 1839.Dear Charles,-- In reply to your letter, and Fanny's,Lord Brougham, it appears, isn't ...
I hain't no hand at tellin' tales,Er spinnin' yarns, as the sailors say;Someway o' 'nother, language failsTo slide fer me ...
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
I'm one o' these cur'ous kind o' chapsYou think you know when you don't, perhaps!I hain't no fool--ner I don't ...
THEY declare that I'm gracefully pretty,The very best waltzer that whirls;They say I am sparkling and witty,The pearl, the queen ...
A lover said, "O Maiden, love me well,For I must go away:And should ANOTHER ever come to tellOf love--What WILL ...
Pap's got his patent-right, and rich is all creation;But where's the peace and comfort that we all had before?Le's go ...
A widower muses over the likeness of his dead wife.THE face, the beautiful face,In its living flush and glow,The perfect ...
Neither daylight nor the darknessSee how silently I wander.Not on mountain, nor in valley,Does an old acacia ponder.The acacia solves ...
I am the dark one, -the widower; -the unconsoled,The prince of Aquitaine at his stricken tower:My sole star is dead, ...
Two shapes passed over the sobbing sea To land at Dunolly Bay; One passed at sunrise, one at noon Of ...
"Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave noteAbout his grassy nest, and builders hummed Old songs while sod on sod ...
We had many problems set us when Coolgardie was a camp,When the journey to the goldfields meant a coach-fare or ...
I was only eight years old;And before I grew up and knew what it meantI had no words for it, ...
Tenderness - is like a cry full of war; And like the current of whispering springs, And like a funeral ...
O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the ...
I was only eight years old; And before I grew up and knew what it meant I had no words ...
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