Poems

First Love A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt, The REVEREND BERNARD POWLES, And in his church there weekly knelt At least a hundred souls. There little ELLEN […]

General John The bravest names for fire and flames And all that mortal durst, Were GENERAL JOHN and PRIVATE JAMES, Of the Sixty-seventy-first. GENERAL JOHN was […]

Gentle Alice Brown It was a robber’s daughter, and her name was ALICE BROWN, Her father was the terror of a small Italian town; Her mother […]

Girl Graduates They intend to send a wire To the moon; And they’ll set the Thames on fire Very soon; Then they learn to make silk […]

Good Little Girls Although of native maids the cream, We’re brought up on the English scheme – The best of all For great and small Who […]

Gregory Parable, LL.D. A leafy cot, where no dry rot Had ever been by tenant seen, Where ivy clung and wopses stung, Where beeses hummed and […]

Haunted Haunted? Ay, in a social way By a body of ghosts in dread array; But no conventional spectres they – Appalling, grim, and tricky: I […]

He and She [HE.] I know a youth who loves a little maid – (Hey, but his face is a sight for to see!) Silent is […]

He Loves! He loves! If in the bygone years Thine eyes have ever shed Tears – bitter, unavailing tears, For one untimely dead – If in […]

Her Terms My wedded life Must every pleasure bring On scale extensive! If I’m your wife I must have everything That’s most expensive – A lady’s-maid […]