Love Poems – Page 2850
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The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again / JOHN GILPIN was a citizen / Of credit and renown, … -
Epigrams
Cologne / IN Köln, a town of monks and bones, / And pavements fanged with murderous stones, … -
The Razor-Seller
A Fellow in a market-town, / Most musical, cried razors up and down, / And offered twelve for eighteen pence; … -
Paper
A Conversational Pleasantry / SOME wit of old—such wits of old there were, / Whose hints showed meaning, whose allusions care— … -
Rudolph the Headsman
From “This Is It” / RUDOLPH, professor of the headsman’s trade, / Alike was famous for his arm and blade. … -
Song of One Eleven Years in Prison
WHENE’ER with haggard eyes I view / This dungeon that I ’m rotting in, / I think of those companions true … -
Little Billee
There were three sailors of Bristol City / Who took a boat and went to sea, / But first with beef and captain’s biscuits … -
Captain Reece
OF 1 all the ships upon the blue, / No ship contained a better crew / Than that of worthy Captain Reece, … -
The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”
From “The Bab Ballads” / ’T WAS on the shores that round our coast / From Deal to Ramsgate span, … -
The Art of Book-Keeping
How hard, when those who do not wish / To lend, thus lose, their books, / Are snared by anglers—folks that fish …
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