A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets |
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Bret Harte AN ACTOR A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet The British
Roscius in the street , Garrick , of whom our nation justly brags ; The fellow
hugged him with a kind embrace ; “ Good sir , I do not recollect your face , ” Quoth
Garrick .
Bret Harte AN ACTOR A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet The British
Roscius in the street , Garrick , of whom our nation justly brags ; The fellow
hugged him with a kind embrace ; “ Good sir , I do not recollect your face , ” Quoth
Garrick .
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Huddup ! " said the parson . - Off went they . The parson was working his
Sunday's text Had got to fifthly , and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses was
coming next . All at once the horse stood still , Close by the meet'n ' - house on
the hill .
Huddup ! " said the parson . - Off went they . The parson was working his
Sunday's text Had got to fifthly , and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses was
coming next . All at once the horse stood still , Close by the meet'n ' - house on
the hill .
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Then something decidedly like a spill , – And the parson was sitting upon a rock ,
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 ...
Then something decidedly like a spill , – And the parson was sitting upon a rock ,
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 ...
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At night , when all around is still , You'll find him pounding up a hill ; And
shrieking peasants whom he meets , Fall down in terror on the peats ! Old Peter
walks through wind and rain , Resolved to train , and train , and train , Until he
weighs ...
At night , when all around is still , You'll find him pounding up a hill ; And
shrieking peasants whom he meets , Fall down in terror on the peats ! Old Peter
walks through wind and rain , Resolved to train , and train , and train , Until he
weighs ...
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... Put on a quick delivery stamp , and sent the cod by mail . She smelled it a -
coming two blocks off on the top of the postman's pack ; She rushed to meet him ,
and scared him blind by climbing the poor man's back . But she got the fish , bit
out ...
... Put on a quick delivery stamp , and sent the cod by mail . She smelled it a -
coming two blocks off on the top of the postman's pack ; She rushed to meet him ,
and scared him blind by climbing the poor man's back . But she got the fish , bit
out ...
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Page 204 - 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...
Page 25 - That there wasn'ta 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 whippletree neither less nor more, And the...
Page 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.
Page 326 - If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose," the Walrus said, "That they could get it clear?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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—
Page 288 - 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.
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| Title | A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Reprint: Books for Libraries Press [1969] |
| Editor | Frederic Lawrence Knowles |
| Publisher | D. Estes, 1902 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 407 pages |
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