English Poems – Page 229

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• Rudolph the Headsman

  From “This Is It”
  RUDOLPH, professor of the headsman’s trade,
  Alike was famous for his arm and blade. …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• 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 …

  George Canning

• 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 …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• Captain Reece

  OF 1 all the ships upon the blue,
  No ship contained a better crew
  Than that of worthy Captain Reece, …

  William Schwenck Gilbert

• The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”

  From “The Bab Ballads”
  ’T WAS on the shores that round our coast
  From Deal to Ramsgate span, …

  William Schwenck Gilbert

• 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 …

  Thomas Hood

• Address to the Toothache

  My curse upon thy venomed stang,
  That shoots my tortured gums alang;
  An’ through my lugs gies mony a twang, …

  Robert Burns

• To the Terrestrial Globe

  By a Miserable Wretch
  ROLL on, thou ball, roll on!
  Through pathless realms of space …

  William Schwenck Gilbert

• The Nose and the Eyes

  Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose;
  The spectacles set them, unhappily, wrong;
  The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, …

  William Cowper

• The Vowels: An Enigma

  We are little airy creatures,
  All of different voice and features;
  One of us in glass is set, …

  Jonathan Swift

• The Latest Decalogue

  Thou shalt have one God only: who
  Would be at the expense of two?
  No graven images may be …

  Arthur Hugh Clough

• The New Church Organ

  They ’ve got a bran new organ, Sue,
  For all their fuss and search;
  They ’ve done just as they said they ’d do, …

  Will Carleton

• Tonis ad Resto Mare

  Air: “o Mary, heave a sigh for me.”
  O MARE æva si forme;
  Forme ure tonitru; …

  Jonathan Swift

• The Irishman and the Lady

  There was a lady lived at Leith,
  A lady very stylish, man;
  And yet, in spite of all her teeth, …

  William Maginn

• Ritter Hugo

  Der noble Ritter Hugo
  Von Schwillensanfenstein
  Rode out mit shpeer und helmet, …

  Charles Godfrey Leland

• Hans Breitmann’s Party

  Hans Breitmann gife a barty,
  Dey had biano-blayin;
  I felled in lofe mit a Merican frau, …

  Charles Godfrey Leland

• Leedle Yawcob Strauss

  I Haf von funny leedle poy,
  Vot gomes schust to mine knee;
  Der queerest chap, der createst rogue, …

  Charles Follen Adams

• Dot Long-Handled Dipper

  Der boet may sing off “Der Oldt Oaken Bookit,”
  Und in schveetest langvitch its virtues may tell;
  Und how, ven a poy, he mit eggsdasy dook it, …

  Charles Follen Adams

• The Jackdaw of Rheims

  The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal’s chair!
  Bishop and abbot and prior were there;
  Many a monk, and many a friar, …

  Richard Harris Barham

• American

  From “a Fable for Critics”
  THERE are truths you Americans need to be told,
  And it never ’ll refute them to swagger and scold; …

  James Russell Lowell

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