The Book of Humorous PoetryWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 464 Seiten |
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... Town of Passage ( The ) Tragic Story ( A ) • • 96 Peter Pindar , William Cowper , 215 86 208 George P. Morris , 409 Peter Pindar , 306 262 Sancta Clara , Dr. Maginn , 344 Leigh Hunt , 363 W. B. Wake , 361 Selber , 25 137 Dr. Jenner ...
... Town of Passage ( The ) Tragic Story ( A ) • • 96 Peter Pindar , William Cowper , 215 86 208 George P. Morris , 409 Peter Pindar , 306 262 Sancta Clara , Dr. Maginn , 344 Leigh Hunt , 363 W. B. Wake , 361 Selber , 25 137 Dr. Jenner ...
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... town , A citizen , for recreation's sake , A counsel in the Common Pleas , A country squire , of greater wealth than wit , A donkey whose talent for burden was wond'rous , A farmer's lease contained a flaw , A fellow in a market town ...
... town , A citizen , for recreation's sake , A counsel in the Common Pleas , A country squire , of greater wealth than wit , A donkey whose talent for burden was wond'rous , A farmer's lease contained a flaw , A fellow in a market town ...
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... town of Passage , The very silliest thing in life , They look'd so alike as they sat at their work , They may talk of love in a cottage , Three sightless inmates of the sky , This ancient silver bowl of mine , it tells of good old times ...
... town of Passage , The very silliest thing in life , They look'd so alike as they sat at their work , They may talk of love in a cottage , Three sightless inmates of the sky , This ancient silver bowl of mine , it tells of good old times ...
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... ye be my hearte's steer , Queen of comfort and of good company , Be heavy again , or elle's must I die . Now purse , thou art to me my live's light , And saviour , as down in this world here , A Out of this town help me by your might ,
... ye be my hearte's steer , Queen of comfort and of good company , Be heavy again , or elle's must I die . Now purse , thou art to me my live's light , And saviour , as down in this world here , A Out of this town help me by your might ,
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Out of this town help me by your might , Sithea that you will not be my treasure ; For I am shave as nigh as any frere , But I prayen unto your courtesy Be heavy again , or elle's must I die . THE PILGRIMS AND THE PEAS . PETER PINDAR ...
Out of this town help me by your might , Sithea that you will not be my treasure ; For I am shave as nigh as any frere , But I prayen unto your courtesy Be heavy again , or elle's must I die . THE PILGRIMS AND THE PEAS . PETER PINDAR ...
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Seite 220 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Seite 221 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Seite 195 - Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form / Evanishing amid the storm.
Seite 386 - ... BACK and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Seite 220 - ... chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Seite 87 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Seite 196 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Seite 218 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Seite 86 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Seite 306 - And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound.