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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... land where an Irishman's hoonted By oogly know - nothings that's lurkin ' about . " I scorn'd to reply to the spacious suggestion ; But put me wardrobe in the crown of me hat ; And , kissing me mother , to aid me digestion , Set out on ...
... land where an Irishman's hoonted By oogly know - nothings that's lurkin ' about . " I scorn'd to reply to the spacious suggestion ; But put me wardrobe in the crown of me hat ; And , kissing me mother , to aid me digestion , Set out on ...
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... land dominions To comfort the spalpeens of Misther MacShane ! If coxcombs and guardsmen made love to me woman , And I , in me innocence , chose to complain , She'd intimate sthrongly that I was inhuman , And mintion me contrast wid ...
... land dominions To comfort the spalpeens of Misther MacShane ! If coxcombs and guardsmen made love to me woman , And I , in me innocence , chose to complain , She'd intimate sthrongly that I was inhuman , And mintion me contrast wid ...
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... for her pig , Larrie came with the corn , And some of the ears that he tossed from his hand In the pen of the widow were certain to land . One morning said he : " Och ! Misthress McGee A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 43.
... for her pig , Larrie came with the corn , And some of the ears that he tossed from his hand In the pen of the widow were certain to land . One morning said he : " Och ! Misthress McGee A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 43.
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... land or ocean No mail no post — No news from any foreign coast No park no ring no afternoon gentility . --- No company – no nobility - No warmth , no cheerfulness , no healthful ease , No comfortable feel in any member - No shade , no ...
... land or ocean No mail no post — No news from any foreign coast No park no ring no afternoon gentility . --- No company – no nobility - No warmth , no cheerfulness , no healthful ease , No comfortable feel in any member - No shade , no ...
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... , " My errand up here is to pay · - " " But the generous scribe , with a wave of his hand , Put a stop to the speech of his guest , And brought in a melon , the finest the land A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 177 HE CAME TO PAY ...
... , " My errand up here is to pay · - " " But the generous scribe , with a wave of his hand , Put a stop to the speech of his guest , And brought in a melon , the finest the land A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 177 HE CAME TO PAY ...
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Ahkoond ain't Behave yoursel blue Brown captain's gig Charles Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Stuart Calverley cried d'ye think dance dear eyes fair father folks Fuzzy-Wuzzy Gilpin girl give goes hair hand head hear heard heart Hot Cross Bun humorous Irishman John John Godfrey Saxe Jones kiss lady legs Lewis Carroll live look Lord 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 rhymes rose round Sally Brown 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 took town true to Poll twas verse vulgar Boy Widow wife William Winthrop Mackworth Praed wonder young
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Page 202 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch...
Page 127 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a
Page 129 - Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. Ah ! little ken'd thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for her wee Nannie, Wi...
Page 19 - Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large; Take it. You're welcome. No extra charge.) FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the Earthquake-day. — There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local as one may say.
Page 289 - A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic...
Page 3 - And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say: "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
Page 125 - Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses).
Page 214 - GOOD people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song ; And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Isling town there was a man Of whom the world might say That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes: The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many...
Page 156 - Gilpin's spouse said to her dear — " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we no holiday have seen. " To-morrow is our wedding-day, and we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton all in a chaise and pair.
Page 203 - Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two ! One, two ! And through, and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. " And hast thou slain the Jabberwock ? Come to my arms, my beamish boy ! Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! callay!