An Excellent Ballad Of George Barnwell, An Apprentice Of London (Anonymous British Poems)
An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an Apprentice of London, who…thrice robbed his master and murdered his vncle in Ludlow. ...
An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an Apprentice of London, who…thrice robbed his master and murdered his vncle in Ludlow. ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
DeathThou wealthy man of large possessions here,Amounting to some thousand pounds a year,Extorted by oppression from the poor,The time is ...
JANUARYJanus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and belowI count, as god of avenues and gates, ...
It fell about the Lammas tide,When the muir-men win their hay,The doughty Douglas bound him to rideInto England, to drive ...
O waly, waly, my gay goss-hawk,Gin your feathering be sheen!"And waly, waly, my master dear,Gin ye look pale and lean!"O ...
Ye sportive nymphs who on Parnassus play,Though old as ages, -- young and ever gay!O hither wing from Parna's flow'ry ...
When Troy towne had, for ten yeeres 'past',Withstood the Greekes in manfull wise,Then did their foes encrease soe fast,That to ...
Now ponder well, you parents deare,These wordes which I shall write;A doleful story you shall heare,In time brought forth to ...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity--SOLOMON.What are life's joys and gains?What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such painsTo ...
Upon a time when Titan's steeds were drivenTo drench themselves beneath the western heaven;And sable Morpheus had his curtains spread,And ...
Will you hear a Spanish lady,How shee wooed an English man?Garments gay as rich as may be,Decked with jewels she ...
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank;A ferlie he spied wi' his ee;And there he saw a lady bright,Come riding down ...
Come all you freemasons that dwell around the globe,That wear the badge of innocence, I mean the royal robe,Which Noah ...
Late in an evening forth I wentA little before the sun gade down,And there I chanc't, by accident,To light on ...
Things of high import sound I in thine ears,Dear child, though now thou may'st not feel their power;But hoard them ...
Long the sun hath gone to rest,Dimm'd is now the deep'ning west;And the sky hath lost the hueThat the rich ...
'Twas eve. The length'ning shadows of the oakAnd weeping birch swept far adown the vale;And nought upon the hush and ...
Say, watchman, what of the night?Do the dews of the morning fall?Have the orient skies a border of lightLike the ...
There is a tongue in every leaf,A voice in every rill --A voice that speaketh everyhwere,In flood and fire, through ...
Behold our orbit as through twice six signsOur central Sun apparently inclines:The Golden Fleece his pale ray first adorns,Then tow'rds ...
Why, lovely insect, dost thou stand,And wave thy quiv'ring wing,As, half afraid thou wert, aloftOn fields of air to spring?But ...
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