Poems

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Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1864 - 308 頁
 

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第 154 頁 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
第 89 頁 - And tells me of the pains He suffers from a score of ills Of which he ne'er complains; And how he struggled once with death To keep the fiend at bay; On themes like those away he goes, But never goes away!
第 54 頁 - Observes some solemn, sentimental owl ; Maxims like these are very cheaply said ; But, ere you make yourself a fool or fowl, Pray just inquire about his rise and fall, And whether larks have any beds at all...
第 42 頁 - Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reason to apprehend You may find it waxed, at the farther end. By some plebeian vocation \\ Or, worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That plagued some worthy relation ! But Miss MacBride had something beside Her lofty birth to nourish her pride — For rich was the old paternal MacBride, According to public rumor : And he lived " up town,
第 57 頁 - Magazine! Stranger on the left, Closing up his peepers; Now he snores amain, Like the Seven Sleepers; At his feet a volume Gives the explanation, How the man grew stupid From "Association!
第 98 頁 - The moral of this mournful tale, To all is plain and clear, — That drinking habits bring a man Too often to his bier ; And he who scorns to
第 58 頁 - Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale, — Bless me ! this is pleasant, Riding on the rail ! I'M GROWING OLD.
第 178 頁 - ... do before they grow staid, And learn to love by the laws of trade. But (alackaday for the girl and boy!) A little impediment checked their joy, And gave them awhile the deepest annoy ; — For some good reason, which history cloaks, The match didn't happen to please the old folks.
第 174 頁 - Parci: stimu/is, utere loris /' (A 'stage direction,' of which the core is, Don't use the whip — they're ticklish things — But, whatever you do, hold on to the strings !) Remember the rule of the jEHu-tribe is, 'Media tutissimus ibis,' As the judge 'remarked to a rowdy Scotchman (Who was going to quod between two watchmen) ; So mind your eye and spare your goad — Be shy of the stones and keep in the road !
第 177 頁 - Now PETER loved a beautiful girl As ever ensnared the heart of an earl In the magical trap of an auburn curl, — A little Miss THISBE who lived next door, (They...

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