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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... Sings a Song Tale of the Kennebec Mariner . Uncle Tascus and the Deed DIBDIN , CHARLES , 1745-1814 . Jack at the Opera Nongtongpaw • DOBSON , AUSTIN , 1840 — A Dialogue from Plato Dora versus Rose DODGE , H. C. , 18- 222 92 282 277 ...
... Sings a Song Tale of the Kennebec Mariner . Uncle Tascus and the Deed DIBDIN , CHARLES , 1745-1814 . Jack at the Opera Nongtongpaw • DOBSON , AUSTIN , 1840 — A Dialogue from Plato Dora versus Rose DODGE , H. C. , 18- 222 92 282 277 ...
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... sing ! " Well , well , the chaplain I will seek , We'll all be married this day week At yonder church upon the hill ; It is my duty , and I will ! " The sisters , cousins , aunts , and niece , 28 A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY.
... sing ! " Well , well , the chaplain I will seek , We'll all be married this day week At yonder church upon the hill ; It is my duty , and I will ! " The sisters , cousins , aunts , and niece , 28 A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY.
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... sing , And sundry flowers their heads upraise , Hail to the coming on of Spring ! The songs of those said birds arouse The memory of our youthful hours , As green as those said sprays and boughs , As fresh and sweet as those said ...
... sing , And sundry flowers their heads upraise , Hail to the coming on of Spring ! The songs of those said birds arouse The memory of our youthful hours , As green as those said sprays and boughs , As fresh and sweet as those said ...
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... sing you a ballad Delicious thereon and thereof . A singer am I , if no sinner , My muse has a marvellous wing , And I willingly worship at dinner The Sirens of Spring . Take endive- like love it is bitter , Take beet for like love it ...
... sing you a ballad Delicious thereon and thereof . A singer am I , if no sinner , My muse has a marvellous wing , And I willingly worship at dinner The Sirens of Spring . Take endive- like love it is bitter , Take beet for like love it ...
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... singing ' Tirer , lirer ! ' " First I go and make the patties , and the puddings , and the jellies , Then I make a sugar bird - cage , which upon a table swell is : " Then I polish all the silver , which a supper - table lacquers : Then ...
... singing ' Tirer , lirer ! ' " First I go and make the patties , and the puddings , and the jellies , Then I make a sugar bird - cage , which upon a table swell is : " Then I polish all the silver , which a supper - table lacquers : Then ...
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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