The Jackaw of Rheims (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
Along in early spring time, as the sun starts swinging NorthTo linger with the land it loves, and violets peep ...
It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the ...
Oh, stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain,And let the doves of fancy loose to ...
THERE'S a fresh track down the paddockThrough the lightwoods to the creek,And I notice Billy CraddockAnd Maloney do not speak,And ...
At supper time an ondine's narrow feetmade dark tracks on the hearth.Like the heart of a yellow fruit was the ...
Mrs Polkinghorne - I see her yet.For company two cats,Driving her rattling wagonette,Her horses wearing hats. Straight as a poker ...
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross,I figuring porcupine & took Sir pokerunbarring Mr door,& then screen door. ...
"It is one of Nature's wrongs,"Sneered the Shovel to the Tongs,"To have led your legs so very far astray.""Ah, she ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.His ...
(REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMES)Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee,And drop them books and first ...
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
I She:When I settle with my hubbyIn our little home, He must not be wild and clubby, He must never ...
A bunch of the boys were whooping it upIn the Malamute Saloon; An American guy from Peckham Rye Was playing ...
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies; Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from ...
Ben Bowyang spluttered with rage suppressed, "Hi, there!" And his brow was black,As two by two and three by three ...
IWe have no daily papers To tell of Newport capers, No proud four hundred to look down on ordinary folk;No ...
Down here in Cactus Center we believe in savin' time;Unlike the waste of powder, wastin' daylight is a crime;So we ...
Brave Sammy's a fighter, who said he was slow, That Duffeldorf blighter was running his show? The fellow ...
On a fateful day, an unlucky time,Unannounced, it may happen thus:Stifling, blacker still than a monasteryUtter madness descends on us.Bitter ...
Down here in Cactus Center we ain't much on splittin' hairs;In the fancy shades of language we are puttin' on ...
I His hoss went dead an' his mule went lame; He lost six cows in a poker game; A harricane ...
Wake for the sun, that scatters into flight, The poker players who have stayed all night; Drives ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
They were seated there in silence Each one busy with a frown, It was midnight in the ...
The Poker proposed to the shovelThat they should be man and wife,"I think," said he, "that we could agreeAs we ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
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