A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American PoetsFrederic Lawrence Knowles D. Estes, 1902 - 407 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... sweet as dew , and words as soft as rain- But they have heard her father's step , and in he leaps again ! Out spoke the ancient fisherman : " Oh , what was that , my daughter ? ' 66 “ ' Twas nothing but a pebble , sir , I threw into the ...
... sweet as dew , and words as soft as rain- But they have heard her father's step , and in he leaps again ! Out spoke the ancient fisherman : " Oh , what was that , my daughter ? ' 66 “ ' Twas nothing but a pebble , sir , I threw into the ...
Pagina 20
... Sweet , when the morn is gray ; Sweet , when they've cleared away Lunch ; and at close of day Possibly sweetest : I have a liking old For thee , though manifold Stories , I know , are told , Not to thy credit ; How one ( or two at most ) ...
... Sweet , when the morn is gray ; Sweet , when they've cleared away Lunch ; and at close of day Possibly sweetest : I have a liking old For thee , though manifold Stories , I know , are told , Not to thy credit ; How one ( or two at most ) ...
Pagina 36
... sweet as those said flowers . The birds aforesaid - happy pairs -- Love , ' mid the aforesaid boughs , inshrines In freehold nests ; themselves their heirs , Administrators , and assigns . O busiest term of Cupid's Court , Where tender ...
... sweet as those said flowers . The birds aforesaid - happy pairs -- Love , ' mid the aforesaid boughs , inshrines In freehold nests ; themselves their heirs , Administrators , and assigns . O busiest term of Cupid's Court , Where tender ...
Pagina 56
... sweet young housemaids what's The art of trapping lovers . " The things I've done ' neath moon and stars Have got me into messes : I've seen the sky through prison bars , I've torn up prison dresses : " I've sat , I've sigh'd , I've ...
... sweet young housemaids what's The art of trapping lovers . " The things I've done ' neath moon and stars Have got me into messes : I've seen the sky through prison bars , I've torn up prison dresses : " I've sat , I've sigh'd , I've ...
Pagina 73
... sweet summers , made my bosom thrill ! Will a swallow or a swift , or some bird - Fly to her and say , I love her still ? Say my life's a desert drear and arid , To its one green spot I aye recur : Never , never- although three times ...
... sweet summers , made my bosom thrill ! Will a swallow or a swift , or some bird - Fly to her and say , I love her still ? Say my life's a desert drear and arid , To its one green spot I aye recur : Never , never- although three times ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Ahkoond Behave yoursel blue Bret Harte Brown called captain's gig Charles Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Stuart Calverley cried d'ye think dance dear eyes fair father folks Gilpin girl give goes hair hand head hear heard heart Hot Cross Bun humorous Irishman John John Godfrey Saxe Jones kind kiss lady legs Lewis Carroll live look Lord MacShane maid Mamma married Mister morning mother ne'er never night niversity of Gottingen nose Number o'er Oily ould Paddy play poem pray pretty proputty rabbit-pie rhymes rose round Sam Walter Foss Samuel Lover sighed sing smile song soul sure Swat sweet tail talk Tascus tell thee There's thing Thomas Hood thou thought told took town twas verse Widow wife William Winthrop Mackworth Praed wonder word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 202 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch...
Pagina 169 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit " But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Pagina 163 - And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin neck or nought, Away went hat and wig, He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig.
Pagina 24 - I tell yeou,") He would build one shay to beat the taown 'N' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: "Fur," said the Deacon, '"t's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Pagina 25 - ... they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came; Running as usual; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty and FIFTY-FIVE. 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.
Pagina 170 - And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well. The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain ; Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein ; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went postboy at his heels, The postboy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.
Pagina 161 - On horseback after we." He soon replied, " I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. " I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the Calender Will lend his horse to go.
Pagina 164 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay ; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton, his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin ! — Here's the house !' They all at once did cry ; " The dinner waits, and we are tired :" — Said Gilpin—
Pagina 282 - Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more ; The king himself has follow'd her — When she has walk'd before. But now, her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all ; The doctors found, when she was dead — Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may say, That had she lived a twelvemonth more — She had not died to-day.
Pagina 25 - EIGHTEEN HUNDRED ; — it came and found The Deacon's masterpiece strong and sound. Eighteen hundred increased by ten ; — 'Hahnsum kerridge' they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came: — Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer.