Matty’s Reason (John Hartley Poems)
"Nah, Matty! what meeans all this fuss? Tha'rt as back'ard as back'ard can be;Ther must be some reason, becoss It used to ...
"Nah, Matty! what meeans all this fuss? Tha'rt as back'ard as back'ard can be;Ther must be some reason, becoss It used to ...
This world's made up ov leet an shade, But some things strange aw mark;One class live all on th' sunny side, Wol ...
You 'll be wonderin' whut 's de reason I 's a grinnin' all de time, An' I guess you t'ink my sperits Mus' ...
'You talk of snakes,' said Jack the Rat,'But blow me, one hot summer,I seen a thing that knocked me flat ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
I nearly fell fair in my tracks.I'm trudgin' homeward with my axe When I come on her suddenly. "I wonder ...
I wondered wot was doin'. First I seenOle Missus Flood wave signals to Doreen. I'm in the paddick slashin' down ...
Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills;When ...
Last night I caught him on his knees and looking underneath the bed,And oh, the guilty look he wore, and ...
JEST a-wearyin' fer you All the time a-feelin' blue; Wishin' fer you wonderin' when You'll be comin' home again ; ...
I WONDER what the trees will say,The trees that used to share his play,An' knew him as the little ladWho ...
He did n't know much music When first he come along; An' all the birds went wonderin' Why ...
I WONDER if they're bitin' way off yonder in the bay! I wonder if they're fightin' very hard t' git ...
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers (I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and ...
No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though ...
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