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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... Dead BROUGH , ROBert Barnabas , 1828-1860 . My Lord Tomnoddy BROWNELL , HENRY Howard , 1820 - 1872 . The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring BROWNING , Robert , 1812 — 1889 . The Pope and the Net BUCK , CHARLES GURDON , 1847 An Idyl · BUNNER ...
... Dead BROUGH , ROBert Barnabas , 1828-1860 . My Lord Tomnoddy BROWNELL , HENRY Howard , 1820 - 1872 . The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring BROWNING , Robert , 1812 — 1889 . The Pope and the Net BUCK , CHARLES GURDON , 1847 An Idyl · BUNNER ...
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... dead As any nail in town , ― For , though distress had cut him up , It could not cut him down ! A dozen men sat on his corpse , To find out why he died And they buried Ben in four cross - roads , With a stake in his inside ! Thomas Hood ...
... dead As any nail in town , ― For , though distress had cut him up , It could not cut him down ! A dozen men sat on his corpse , To find out why he died And they buried Ben in four cross - roads , With a stake in his inside ! Thomas Hood ...
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... dead ; The Ahkoond is dead ! For the Ahkoond I mourn , Who wouldn't ? He strove to disregard the message stern , But he Ahkoodn't . Dead , dead , dead : ( Sorrow , Swats ! ) Swats wha hae wi ' Ahkoond bled , Swats whom he hath often led ...
... dead ; The Ahkoond is dead ! For the Ahkoond I mourn , Who wouldn't ? He strove to disregard the message stern , But he Ahkoodn't . Dead , dead , dead : ( Sorrow , Swats ! ) Swats wha hae wi ' Ahkoond bled , Swats whom he hath often led ...
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... Dead lies the great Ahkoond , The great Ahkoond of Swat Is not ! George Thomas Lanigan THE YARN OF THE " NANCY BELL " ' Twas on the shores that round our coast From Deal to Ramsgate span , That I found alone on a piece of stone An ...
... Dead lies the great Ahkoond , The great Ahkoond of Swat Is not ! George Thomas Lanigan THE YARN OF THE " NANCY BELL " ' Twas on the shores that round our coast From Deal to Ramsgate span , That I found alone on a piece of stone An ...
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... dead . But batins are said to agree wid some people ; And sure they were blessin's that caused me to grow Until I was almost as tall as a staple , - And only fell short be an acre or so . Wan mornin ' whin I was ingaged in the gardin ...
... dead . But batins are said to agree wid some people ; And sure they were blessin's that caused me to grow Until I was almost as tall as a staple , - And only fell short be an acre or so . Wan mornin ' whin I was ingaged in the gardin ...
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Ahkoond Behave yoursel 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 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 vulgar Boy Wan-two Widow wife William Winthrop Mackworth Praed wonder young