To Mrs. Goodchild (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow, The boding bat flits by on sullen wing, And I sit ...
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow, The boding bat flits by on sullen wing, And I sit ...
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, His wife would eat ...
'Tis morn.An individualistic cockProclaims the fact.The dissipated cat sneaks home forlorn.'Tis time to get up and act!'Tis eight o'clock!The stern ...
To MR. E. H. SHARP. Blue bird an' de killdee Am er flittin' by! Spring time chillun! An' de fishin' ...
Les amoureux fervents et les savants aust?resAiment ?galement, dans leur m?re saison,Les chats puissants et doux, orgueil de la maison,Qui ...
My Papa knows you, and he says you're a man who makes reading for books;But I never read nothing you ...
Bellow, bull, bellow!Low thy dark soundLike a moan,Call to thine own!Stand with thy head on the fence,And bellow, bull, bellow!What ...
As the Kaffir is known by his Wig-WamAs a Scotsman is known by his thistleAnd a man from the West ...
The Deil's forhooit his ain, his ain!The Deil's forhooit his ain!His bairns are greitin in ilka neuk,For the Deil's forhooit ...
THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock, Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, Whose Middle-part was ...
I LIV'D in an old house, you ne'er saw one older, The wind whistled loud when the winter set in; ...
When PHARAOH chased the chosen Jew, and perished in the sea,Things seemed to hint at failure in the PHARAOH policy.For ...
There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like the silence under the sea;No cries announcing ...
Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding stillness; sleepCollects all weary ...
I'm a lover of night-life in LondonWhen I start I can go pretty fastI've blotted me copy book I must ...
On Sunday when I go to church I ...
THE night was thick and hazy When the 'Piccadilly Daisy' Carried down the crew and captain in the ...
Come all you sons of Freedom, a chorus join with me,I'll sing a song of heroes, and glorious liberty.Some lads ...
The Nutcrackers sate by a plate on the table, The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side;And the ...
" Behold the mansion swift upreared for Jack: See the malt stored in many an ample sack. Mark how the ...
"A was once an ant, Tiny, Busy, Speedy, ShinyIn the groundyLittle ant!A was once a little ant, Antsy Fantsy Mantsy ...
IFrom troubles of the world I turn to ducks,Beautiful comical thingsSleeping or curledTheir heads beneath white wingsBy water cool,Or finding ...
The world is full of sunshine. The birds are full of song. The happy humble homes are full of hope. ...
O man with a Position, prithee tell,How is't you mould your sal'ried life so well;Holding in lofty scorn that lowly ...
The sounds in the evening Go all through the house, The click ...
IN this rejoicing time, when sun and shower In shining alternation rule the sky, And the brown fields are shadow'd ...
I KNOW not of what we ponder'd Or made pretty pretence to talk, As, her hand within mine, we ...
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!Mighty glad I ain't ...
Three little kittens, black, white and gray, Went out in the garden one morning to play. Said the white one, ...
CLIMBING through the January snow, into the Lobo canyonDark grow the spruce-trees, blue is the balsam, water sounds still unfrozen, ...
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