Humorous PoemsMacmillan, 1893 - 236 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... soon in a second edition . Among those into whose hands it fell was Samuel Taylor Coleridge , then residing under Mr. Gillman's roof at Highgate . His delight was great ; and in the absence of any in- formation as to the authorship , he ...
... soon in a second edition . Among those into whose hands it fell was Samuel Taylor Coleridge , then residing under Mr. Gillman's roof at Highgate . His delight was great ; and in the absence of any in- formation as to the authorship , he ...
Pagina xii
... soon followed by the two series of Whims and Oddities ; and in 1827 Hood reprinted his Serious Poems from the London Magazine with some new matter , including the graceful poem which gave its name to the volume , " The Plea of the Mid ...
... soon followed by the two series of Whims and Oddities ; and in 1827 Hood reprinted his Serious Poems from the London Magazine with some new matter , including the graceful poem which gave its name to the volume , " The Plea of the Mid ...
Pagina 1
... soon be numbered with the pastimes of past times its dogs will have had their day , and its Deer will be Fallow . A few more seasons , and this City Common Hunt will become un- common . In proof of this melancholy decadence , the ...
... soon be numbered with the pastimes of past times its dogs will have had their day , and its Deer will be Fallow . A few more seasons , and this City Common Hunt will become un- common . In proof of this melancholy decadence , the ...
Pagina 13
... soon may go a stride . " So off they scampered , man and horse , As time and temper pressed— But Huggins , hitching on a tree , Branched off from all the rest . Howbeit he tumbled down in time To join with Tom EPPING HUNT 13.
... soon may go a stride . " So off they scampered , man and horse , As time and temper pressed— But Huggins , hitching on a tree , Branched off from all the rest . Howbeit he tumbled down in time To join with Tom EPPING HUNT 13.
Pagina 24
... soon the horse was well avenged , For cruel smart of spurs , For , riding through a moor , he pitched His master in a furze ! Where sharper set than hunger is He squatted all forlorn ; And like a bird was singing out While sitting on 24 ...
... soon the horse was well avenged , For cruel smart of spurs , For , riding through a moor , he pitched His master in a furze ! Where sharper set than hunger is He squatted all forlorn ; And like a bird was singing out While sitting on 24 ...
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1893 by Macmillan altho BALLAD banns of marriage began Billy birds bone Brock CE Brock CEBrock chase child Chiney coat Coleridge Copyright 1893 cried David Vine dead dear death deer Devil's Sea drank eyes face fairy fancy fast felt folks gave hair half hand head heart Hood Hood's horrid horse Huggins John John Dockery John Huggins Lady Lamb Lawk legs little ducks look Lord lost maid mare master mend miss morning mother Nelly Gray never night o'er Odes and Addresses once Peter Holt poem pond poor pretty Rag Fair ride rode round Sally Brown sank seem'd seemed ship shoe shoot sight sitting soon sort stag stand staring stood sure tail Tailpiece tell There's things THOMAS HOOD thought took Twas verse Whilst William dear wish woes woman
Populaire passages
Pagina xviii - O, give her, then, her tribute just, Her sighs and tears, and musings holy ! There is no music in the life That sounds with idiot laughter solely ; There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in Melancholy.
Pagina 35 - But as they fetched a walk one day, They met a press-gang crew ; And Sally she did faint away, Whilst Ben he was brought to. The boatswain swore with wicked words, Enough to shock a saint, That though she did seem in a fit, 'Twas nothing but a feint. Come, girl...
Pagina 126 - Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms! Now, as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-Second Foot!
Pagina 130 - One end he tied around a beam, And then removed his pegs, And, as his legs were off, — of course, He soon was off his legs!
Pagina 169 - A LITTLE fairy comes at night, Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown, With silver spots upon her wings, And from the moon she flutters down. She has a little silver wand, And when a good child goes to bed She waves her hand from right to left, And makes a circle round its head.
Pagina 39 - But could not though he tried : His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died. His death, which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell.
Pagina 126 - O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform!" Said she, "I loved a soldier once, For he was blithe and brave; But I will never have a man With both legs in the grave! "Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then you know, you stand upon Another footing now!
Pagina 192 - East, she turned her West, Staring like Pythoness possest, With streaming hair and heaving breast As one stark mad with grief. This way and that she wildly ran, Jostling with woman and with man — Her right hand held a frying pan, The left a lump of beef.
Pagina 172 - For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. What if the lark does carol in the sky, Soaring beyond the sight to find him out — Wherefore am I to rise at such a fly ? I 'm not a trout.
Pagina 37 - I'd follow him ; But, oh ! — I'm not a fish-woman, And so I cannot swim. " Alas ! I was not born beneath The virgin and the scales, So I must curse my cruel stars, And walk about in Wales.