A Broken Friendship (Anonymous British Poems)
In friendship unbrokenThe happy months passed,With never a tokenThat 'twas not to last.For as time should lengthenFrom months into yearsThe ...
In friendship unbrokenThe happy months passed,With never a tokenThat 'twas not to last.For as time should lengthenFrom months into yearsThe ...
Upon a rock yet uncreate,Amid a chaos inchoate,An uncreated being sate;Beneath him, rock,Above him, cloud. And the cloud was rock,And ...
Handsome she was, and well beseene, As fresh as any of them all,Her rament for the most part greene, Her ...
Each rising charm the bounteous stream bestows,The grass that thickens, and the flower that blows.And while the vale the humid ...
He leaves the earth, and says, enough and moreUnto thee have I given, oh Earth.-- For allWith hand free and ...
Far from the battle shock, fate has fast bound thee,Chained to the rugged rock, waves dash around thee,Instead of the ...
We watch the summer leaves and flowers decay,And feel a sadness o'er the spirit thrown,As if the beauty fading fast ...
Tweed said to Till:'What gars ye rin sae still?'till said to Tweed:'Though ye rin wi speed,an I rin slaw,where ye ...
A town fear'd a seige and held consultationWhich was the best method of fortification;A grave skilful mason said, in his ...
Where the Northern Ocean in vast whirlsBoils round the naked melancholy islesOf furthest Thule, and the Atlantic surgePours in among ...
With a ran, tan, tan,On my old tin can,Heigh tinkle, how tinkle, Heigh tinkle tang.'Tis not for my fault nor ...
Man, thee behoveth oft to have this in mind,That thou givest with thine hand, that thou shalt find;For widows be ...
A handsome young airman lay dying,And as on the aerodrome he lay,To the mechanics who round him came sighing,These last ...
The Sandman's coming in his train of carsWith moonbeam windows and with wheels of starsSo hush you little ones and ...
My face isn't pretty,Nor is it quite plain —I suppose it's an ordin'ryFace in the main.My mum says, "If evenYou ...
Oh, how keen the wedge is drivenIn fond hearts by words that sting --Words that ever stand out boldly,Though years ...
The silver swan, who living had no note,When death approached, unlocked her silent throat,Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,Thus ...
If you transpose what Ladies wear,'Twill plainly shew what harlots are:Again, if you transpose the same,You'll see an ancient Hebrew ...
A steady friend to truth, a heart sincere,In dealing strictly just, in conscience clear,Here Boorer lies, -- Oh stone record ...
His net old fisher George long drew, Shoals upon shoals he caught,'Till death came hauling for his due And made ...
This monument presents unto your vieweA woman rare, in whom all grace divine,Faith, Love, Zeal, Piety, in splendid hue,With sacred ...
Say, if such blandishments did ever greetThy charmed soul; hast thou not crav'd to die?Hast not thine immaterial seem'd but ...
O for a Booke and a shadie nook.Eyther in-a doore or out;With the grene leaves whispering overhede,Or the Streets crys ...
Ten thousand trippers took twenty three trainsTo take them to Trincomalee.They talked, they tittered then took their tea,The tales they ...
O for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out;With the green leaves whispering overhead,Or the street cries all ...
In Memory ofHannah Margaret,Daughter of Matthew and Hannah B----,who died Nov. 27th, 1827, aged 5 years.Great his our grief,Great was ...
What a wonderful bird the frog are! When he stands he sit almost; When he hop he fly almost. He ...
Here's a health unto our miasterThe founder of the feast,And I hope to God wi' all my heartHis soul in ...
Where is Timarchus gone?His father's hands were round him, And when he breathed his life away,The joy of youth had ...
Whoso him bethoft Inwardly and oft,How hard it were to flitFrom bed unto the pit,From pit unto painThat ne'er shall ...
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