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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... pass beside the stream , mother , where first my hand he press'd , By the meadow where , with quivering lip , his passion he confess'd ; And down the hedgerows where we've stray'd again and yet again ; And he will not think of me ...
... pass beside the stream , mother , where first my hand he press'd , By the meadow where , with quivering lip , his passion he confess'd ; And down the hedgerows where we've stray'd again and yet again ; And he will not think of me ...
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... pass by , Droll legends of his infancy . A feather bed had every man , Warm slippers and hot - water can , Brown Windsor from the captain's store , A valet , too , to every four . Did they with thirst in summer burn ? Lo , seltzogenes ...
... pass by , Droll legends of his infancy . A feather bed had every man , Warm slippers and hot - water can , Brown Windsor from the captain's store , A valet , too , to every four . Did they with thirst in summer burn ? Lo , seltzogenes ...
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... pass'd , what was felt or spoken Whether anything pass'd at all- And whether the heart was broken That beat under that shelt'ring shawl- ( If shawl she had on , which I doubt ) — has gone , Yes , gone from me past recall . Was I haply ...
... pass'd , what was felt or spoken Whether anything pass'd at all- And whether the heart was broken That beat under that shelt'ring shawl- ( If shawl she had on , which I doubt ) — has gone , Yes , gone from me past recall . Was I haply ...
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... pass , and held her like grim death . " " Whose pass ? What pass ? " the anxious father cried ; " " Twas the'r monopoly , " the boy replied . In deference to the public , we must state That boy has been an orphan since that date ...
... pass , and held her like grim death . " " Whose pass ? What pass ? " the anxious father cried ; " " Twas the'r monopoly , " the boy replied . In deference to the public , we must state That boy has been an orphan since that date ...
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... passing by , And thought it neighborly to give you notice . " " Ten thousand thanks ; how very few get , In time of danger , Such kind attentions from a stranger ! Assuredly , that fellow's throat is Doomed to a final drop at Newgate ...
... passing by , And thought it neighborly to give you notice . " " Ten thousand thanks ; how very few get , In time of danger , Such kind attentions from a stranger ! Assuredly , that fellow's throat is Doomed to a final drop at Newgate ...
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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