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Gave signal sweet , in that old hall , Of hands across and down the middle , Hers
was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing ; She was our
queen , our rose , our star ; And then she danced - 0 Heaven , her dancing !
Gave signal sweet , in that old hall , Of hands across and down the middle , Hers
was the subtlest spell by far Of all that set young hearts romancing ; She was our
queen , our rose , our star ; And then she danced - 0 Heaven , her dancing !
Page 8
She botanized ; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She
warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalini jealous : She touched the
organ ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows . She kept an
album , too ...
She botanized ; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She
warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalini jealous : She touched the
organ ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows . She kept an
album , too ...
Page 31
Guardsman fine - or young attaché , Black and smooth as papier - maché ,
Beauty Clare . In your box I see them dangling , Triumphs of successful angling ,
Trophies ranged behind your chair ; How they watch the fan you flutter ! How they
...
Guardsman fine - or young attaché , Black and smooth as papier - maché ,
Beauty Clare . In your box I see them dangling , Triumphs of successful angling ,
Trophies ranged behind your chair ; How they watch the fan you flutter ! How they
...
Page 35
And fast the time flees , till a lady - like sneeze , Or a portly papa's more elaborate
wheeze , Makes Miss Tabitha seize on her brown muf . fetees And announce as
a fact that it's going to freeze , And that young people ought to attend to their P's ...
And fast the time flees , till a lady - like sneeze , Or a portly papa's more elaborate
wheeze , Makes Miss Tabitha seize on her brown muf . fetees And announce as
a fact that it's going to freeze , And that young people ought to attend to their P's ...
Page 39
I had fancied young Titterton's chuckles , And old Bottleby's hearty guffaws As he
drove at my ribs with his knuckles , His mode of expressing applause : While
Jean Bottleby - queenly Miss JanetDrew her handkerchief hastily out , In fits at my
...
I had fancied young Titterton's chuckles , And old Bottleby's hearty guffaws As he
drove at my ribs with his knuckles , His mode of expressing applause : While
Jean Bottleby - queenly Miss JanetDrew her handkerchief hastily out , In fits at my
...
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Page 39 - PART I At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper One whom I will call ELVIRA, and we talked of love and TUPPER, MR. TUPPER and the poets, very lightly with them dealing. For I've always been distinguished for a strong poetic feeling. Then we let off paper crackers, each of which contained a motto, And she listened while I read them, till her mother told her not to. Then she whispered, "To the ball-room we had better, dear, be walking; If we stop down here much longer, really people will...
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| Title | The Parlor Muse: A Selection of Vers de Société from Modern Poets Parchment-paper series |
| Author | Oliver Bell Bunce |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1884 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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