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 |
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... wish to remark — And my language is plain — That for ways that are dark , And for tricks that are vain , The heathen Chinee is peculiar , Which the same I would rise to explain . Ah Sin was his name , And I shall not deny In regard to ...
... wish to remark — And my language is plain — That for ways that are dark , And for tricks that are vain , The heathen Chinee is peculiar , Which the same I would rise to explain . Ah Sin was his name , And I shall not deny In regard to ...
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... wish I ne'er had seen your face ; But now , a long farewell ! For you will be my death ; - alas , You will not be my Nell ! " Now , when he went from Nelly Gray , His heart so heavy got , And life was such a burden grown , It made him ...
... wish I ne'er had seen your face ; But now , a long farewell ! For you will be my death ; - alas , You will not be my Nell ! " Now , when he went from Nelly Gray , His heart so heavy got , And life was such a burden grown , It made him ...
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... wish to call attention , as I close , To the fact that all the scholars Are correct about their collars , And particular in turning out their toes . Charles Edward Carryl THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN It was a tall young 14 A TREASURY OF ...
... wish to call attention , as I close , To the fact that all the scholars Are correct about their collars , And particular in turning out their toes . Charles Edward Carryl THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN It was a tall young 14 A TREASURY OF ...
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... wish to go and wed , " I have a widowed mother who Would be the very thing for you She long has loved you from afar : She washes for you , Captain R. " - The captain saw the dame that day- Addressed her in his playful way - " And did it ...
... wish to go and wed , " I have a widowed mother who Would be the very thing for you She long has loved you from afar : She washes for you , Captain R. " - The captain saw the dame that day- Addressed her in his playful way - " And did it ...
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... told so much upon her . " Mister Martin Tupper , Poet Close , I beg of you inform us ; " But my question seemed to throw them both into a rage enormous . Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only get 58 A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY.
... told so much upon her . " Mister Martin Tupper , Poet Close , I beg of you inform us ; " But my question seemed to throw them both into a rage enormous . Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only get 58 A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY.
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Ahkoond Behave yoursel birds blue Bret Harte Brown 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 kiss lady legs Lewis Carroll little lamb 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 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 vulgar Boy Wan-two Widow wife William Winthrop Mackworth Praed wonder young
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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.