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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... poor dad To see the door latchet directly behind him , And sometimes to walk — whin the whiskey was bad ! ) # - The way I was bate from the night till the mornin ' , And thin from the mornin ' again till to bed , Should be unto aich ...
... poor dad To see the door latchet directly behind him , And sometimes to walk — whin the whiskey was bad ! ) # - The way I was bate from the night till the mornin ' , And thin from the mornin ' again till to bed , Should be unto aich ...
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... poor despond- ing child , Draw me a pot of beer , mother , and mother , draw it mild ! William E. Aytoun In the Bon Gaultier Ballads ODE TO TOBACCO Thou who , when fears attack , Bidst them avaunt , and Black Care , at the horseman's ...
... poor despond- ing child , Draw me a pot of beer , mother , and mother , draw it mild ! William E. Aytoun In the Bon Gaultier Ballads ODE TO TOBACCO Thou who , when fears attack , Bidst them avaunt , and Black Care , at the horseman's ...
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... poor old chaise in a heap or mound , As if it had been to the mill and ground ! You see , of course , if you're not a dunce , How it went to pieces all at once , All at once , and nothing first , Just as bubbles do when they burst ...
... poor old chaise in a heap or mound , As if it had been to the mill and ground ! You see , of course , if you're not a dunce , How it went to pieces all at once , All at once , and nothing first , Just as bubbles do when they burst ...
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... poor deluded aunt ! Her hair is almost gray ; Why will she train that winter curl In such a spring - like way ? How can she lay her glasses down , And say she reads as well , When , through a double convex lens , She just makes out to ...
... poor deluded aunt ! Her hair is almost gray ; Why will she train that winter curl In such a spring - like way ? How can she lay her glasses down , And say she reads as well , When , through a double convex lens , She just makes out to ...
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... poor Brother Bill Used to be drawn to Pentonville , Stood in the lumber - room : I wiped the dust from off the top , While Molly mopped it with a mop , And brushed it with a broom . My uncle's porter , Samuel Hughes , Came in at six to ...
... poor Brother Bill Used to be drawn to Pentonville , Stood in the lumber - room : I wiped the dust from off the top , While Molly mopped it with a mop , And brushed it with a broom . My uncle's porter , Samuel Hughes , Came in at six to ...
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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