The Fairy Queen’s Song
The Fairy Queen’s Song Oh, foolish fay, Think you because Man’s brave array My bosom thaws I’d disobey Our fairy laws? Because I fly In realms […]
READ MOREThe Family Fool
The Family Fool Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he’s so joyous and bright, […]
READ MOREThe Fickle Breeze
The Fickle Breeze Sighing softly to the river Comes the loving breeze, Setting nature all a-quiver, Rustling through the trees! And the brook in rippling measure […]
READ MOREThe First Lord’s Song
The First Lord’s Song When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney’s firm; I cleaned the windows and I […]
READ MOREThe Folly of Brown – By a General Agent
The Folly of Brown – By a General Agent I knew a boor – a clownish card (His only friends were pigs and cows and The […]
READ MOREThe Force of Argument
The Force of Argument Lord B. was a nobleman bold Who came of illustrious stocks, He was thirty or forty years old, And several feet in […]
READ MOREThe Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin
The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin O’er unreclaimed suburban clays Some years ago were hobblin’ An elderly ghost of easy ways, And an […]
READ MOREThe Ghosts’ High Noon
The Ghosts’ High Noon When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, and the bat in the moonlight flies, And inky clouds, like funeral shrouds, […]
READ MOREThe Great Oak Tree
The Great Oak Tree There grew a little flower ‘Neath a great oak tree: When the tempest ‘gan to lower Little heeded she: No need had […]
READ MOREThe Haughty Actor
The Haughty Actor AN actor – GIBBS, of Drury Lane – Of very decent station, Once happened in a part to gain Excessive approbation: It sometimes […]
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