Fly Leaves

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Deighton, Bell, 1872 - 233 strani
 

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Stran 175 - ODE TO TOBACCO THOU who, when fears attack, Bidst them avaunt, and Black Care, at the horseman's back Perching, unseatest ; Sweet, when the morn is gray ; Sweet, when they've cleared away Lunch ; and at close of day Possibly sweetest...
Stran 49 - The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these.
Stran 50 - neath her dimpled cheeks, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And spake not a word. While a lady speaks There is hope, but she didn't even sneeze.
Stran 45 - Dewy Memories" etc. I know not of what we ponder'd Or made pretty pretence to talk, As, her hand within mine, we wander'd Tow'rd the pool by the lime-tree walk, While the dew fell in showers from the passion flowers And the blush-rose bent on her stalk. I cannot recall her figure : Was it regal as Juno's own? Or only a trifle bigger Than the elves who surround the throne Of the Faery Queen, and are seen, I ween, By mortals in dreams alone? What her eyes were like, I know not : Perhaps they were blurr'd...
Stran 37 - I loiter down by thorp and town ; For any job I'm willing ; Take here and there a dusty brown, And here and there a shilling. " I deal in every ware in turn, I've rings .for buddin' Sally That sparkle like those eyes of her V. ; I've liquor for the valet. •
Stran 56 - TwAS ever thus from childhood's hour My fondest hopes would not decay: I never loved a tree or flower Which was the first to fade away!
Stran 48 - THE auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before ; And her spectacles lay on her aproned knees The piper he piped on the hill-top high, (Butter and eggs and a found of cheese) Till the cow said " I die," and the goose asked "Why;" And the dog said nothing, but searched for fleas.
Stran 113 - Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day I like to dock the smaller parts-o'-speech, As we curtail the already cur-tailed cur (You catch the paronomasia, play 'po' words?) Did, rather, i' the pre-Landseerian days. Well, to my muttons. I purchased the concern, And clapt it i' my poke, having given for same By way o...
Stran 111 - I think occurred next in his nimble strain; And clay that was " kneaden " of course in Eden — A rhyme most novel, I do maintain : Mists, bones, the singer himself, love-stories, And all least furlable things got " furled ;" Not with any design to conceal their glories, But simply and solely to rhyme with
Stran 17 - And laugh'd aloud. Each sight and sound To him was joy too deep for tears ; He sat him on the beach, and bound A blue bandana round his ears, And thought how, posted near his door, His own green door on Camden Hill, Two bands at least, most likely more, Were mingling at their own sweet will Verdi with Vance. And at the thought He laugh'd again, and softly drew That Morning Herald that he'd bought Forth from his breast, and read it through.

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