Bob Polter (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
BOB POLTER was a navvy, andHis hands were coarse, and dirty too,His homely face was rough and tanned,His time of ...
BOB POLTER was a navvy, andHis hands were coarse, and dirty too,His homely face was rough and tanned,His time of ...
A gentleman of City fameNow claims your kind attention;East India broking was his game,His name I shall not mention:No one ...
I once did know a Turkish manWhom I upon a two-pair-back met,His name it was EFFENDI KHANBACKSHEESH PASHA BEN ALLAH ...
An Actor sits in doubtful gloom,His stock-in-trade unfurled,In a damp funereal dressing-roomIn the Theatre Royal, World.He comes to town at ...
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)No ...
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,In her magnificent comeliness,Is an English girl of eleven stone two,And five foot ten ...
Were I a king in very truth,And had a son - a guileless youth -In probable succession;To teach him patience, ...
Were I thy bride,Then the whole world besideWere not too wideTo hold my wealth of love -Were I thy bride!Upon ...
Take a pair of sparkling eyes,Hidden, ever and anon,In a merciful eclipse -Do not heed their mild surprise -Having passed ...
When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,She wanders to and fro;Unbidden tear-drops fill her eyes,And to all questions she replies,With ...
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