Three Jolly Huntsmen (Jessie Pope Poems)
Three jolly, old huntsmen, Joe, Jerry, Jim,Took lunch at "The Three Cornered Hat";Now Jerry was lanky, but Joe wasn't slim,And ...
Three jolly, old huntsmen, Joe, Jerry, Jim,Took lunch at "The Three Cornered Hat";Now Jerry was lanky, but Joe wasn't slim,And ...
Sailor lad, on the sodden ground, Sailor lad on the seas,Can't you hear a little clicketty sound Stealing across on the breeze?It's ...
Last week we started out in glee,The boys and Bertha, Aunt and me,Across the village green to see The comet;Some people ...
Estelle, when you and I were rising ninePerhaps you'd rather I suppressed the dateI spent a shilling on a valentineAnd ...
SWING along together, lads ; we'll have a little song,Kits won't be so heavy and the way won't be so ...
Now, Angelina, put it down.Let me entreat you not to smoke it;You dread your Edwin's lightest frown,Or so you ...
(The Blue Cross League, 58 Victoria Street, London, S.W., is in need of funds.) SHE was a pretty, nicely mannered ...
RIPE for any adventure, sturdy, loyal and game,Quick to the call of the Mother, the young Canadians came.Eager to show ...
It was clear that poor Richard was out of the running,His mortification he could not disguise.She flirted with Edward, the ...
When I asked my dear Edwin to shaveI'd never a thought of denial;He'd been such an absolute slave,I put his ...
I go as a ruleAt the coming of Yule,To a place where the sunshine's obtrusive ;At Hydros I'm found,Where dyspeptics ...
When Sibyl sits upon the beachWith Kate and Madeline,Dick, Tom and Jack, the swain of each,Loll gloomily between,With savage glances ...
LEONIDAS of Sparta, years gone by,With but a bare three hundred of his braves,In the ravine of famed ThermopylaeHeld up ...
Dear lady, are you open to a hintAs down our sober pavement you displayA costume reminiscent of a printOf Valenciennes ...
"TO-DAY, since Zeppelins are in the air,And folks glance skywards as they go their ways,Let us hark back a bit ...
(The Kaiser expressed a hope that the British might meet his Bavarians only once. Fifteen hundred Bavarians have been captured ...
WHEN the beagles are running like steam,When the plough is as sticky as glue,When the scent is an absolute scream,And ...
NOT theirs the popular uniformThat takes the feminine heart by storm,And wins soft glances, shy or warm,The perquisites of pluck.But ...
The race of the season is over ;I've lost and ...
(It is reported that women in Stuttgart have been forbidden by military proclamation to cast amorous glances on the British ...
GOLIATH was a giant, the bully of his side,His coat of mail was brazen, his face wasfierce with pride;And when ...
When the housebreaking business is slackAnd cracksmen are finding it slowFor all the sea-siders are backAnd a great many more ...
I wanted a muffOn an up-to-date scale,Of some soft fluffy stuff,With a head and a tail;So simple and innocent-heartedI started ...
Beneath an Ilfracombe machine,While ...
By bridge and battery, town and trench,They're fighting with bull-dog pluck;Not one, from Tommy to General French,Is down upon his ...
Young Thompson was a bit too short,But hard as nails and level-headed,And in his soul the proper sortOf dogged pluck ...
He used to get, when in civilian state,His tea and shaving water, sharp, at eight.Then ten delicious minutes would be ...
IN the nonage of the year,When anemones appear,And the buffets of the breeze are soft as silk,When each sparrow spars ...
When Blucher helped us make an endOf Bonaparte, the common foe,He came to England as a friend,About a hundred years ...
Twenty-Two stalwarts in stripes and shortsKicking a ball along,Set in a square of leather-lunged sportsTwenty-two thousand strong,Some of them shabby, ...
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