... [1775-1864]. TO FANNY. Never mind how the pedagogue proses, You want not antiquity's stamp The lip, that such fragrance discloses, Oh. never should ...
... dainty hand awhile On my shoulder, Dear, and I'll Put them on. Frederick Locker-Lampson [1821-1895]. A GARDEN LYRIC Geraldine And I. Dite, Damasippe, ...
... - Some gloomy souls anticipate A waistcoat, straiter than the fashion. She childless pines, that lonely wife, And secret tears are bitter shedding ...
... The living should live, though the dead be dead, Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago. He taught his scholars the rule of three, Writing, and ...
... of this find in Fayoum would speak, And to Pharaohs and scarabs still carry us back. A scent of lotus about her hung, And she had such a far-away wistful ...
... St. James's. They're painted to the eyes Their white it stays for ever, Their red it never dies: But Phyllida, my Phyllida. Her color comes and goes ...
... fancy that I heard from Mr. Gall That mushrooms could be cooked another way - I never read the works of Juvenal - I think I will not hang myself to-day. The ...
... talented man. P.S. - I have found, on reflection, One fault in my friend, - entre nous Without it, he'd just be perfection - Poor fellow, he has ...
... The birds and the sheep-bells are dumb. I'm alone, for the others have flitted To dine with a neighbor at Kew: Alone, but I'm not to be pitied - ...
... Tiney, surliest of his kind, Who, nursed with tender care, And to domestic bounds confined, Was still a wild Jack-hare. Though duly from my hand he ...
... make us raytional creeturs fer, But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an' blood. So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. We were gittin' ...
... off they fly, 'Tis all to taverns and to lasses. Andrew Lang [1844-1912]. A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH. To put new shingles on old roofs To ...
... vices were as other men's are High hopes he conceived, and he smothered great fears, In a life parti-colored, half pleasure, half care. Nor to business ...
... OR THE WONDERFUL ONE-HOSS SHAY A Logical Story. Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
... Jeffrey Roche [1847-1908]. HEM AND HAW. Hem and Haw were the sons of sin, Created to shally and shirk Hem lay 'round and Haw looked on While God ...
... found be faithful unto any. When snow-white swans do turn to color sable, Then women fond will be both firm and stable. Are women saints. No saints, ...
... And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same. She is wedded to convictions ...
... Filched it from the artist - then, Even in those early days, Won a simple Viceroy's praise Through the toil of other men. Ere they hewed the Sphinx's ...
... spoke But she said, What man is this Comes to play a sorry joke.. Then they praised him - called him smart, Tightest lad that ever stept But ...
... that I am drawing to an end: For on a sudden came a gasp for breath, And stretching of the hands, and blinded eyes, And a, great darkness falling on ...