Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 4Reeves & Turner, 1887 - English wit and humor Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others. |
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... thee late my able book ... ... ... Come to my lobby with thy vote . C. H. Waring TO ALTHEA . Richard Lovelace . When Love , with unconfined Wings . ... Grey hairs do not a prophet make . Champagne will not a dinner make Tell me not ...
... thee late my able book ... ... ... Come to my lobby with thy vote . C. H. Waring TO ALTHEA . Richard Lovelace . When Love , with unconfined Wings . ... Grey hairs do not a prophet make . Champagne will not a dinner make Tell me not ...
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... thee true O Mary , I believed you true . ' Tis the last rose of summer ... Father Prout Judy Eheu rosarum floruit ultima ! ' Tis the first rose of summer . ' Tis the last " quid " of many . Fun ' Tis the last fly of summer ...
... thee true O Mary , I believed you true . ' Tis the last rose of summer ... Father Prout Judy Eheu rosarum floruit ultima ! ' Tis the first rose of summer . ' Tis the last " quid " of many . Fun ' Tis the last fly of summer ...
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... thee all - I can no more ... Beautiful soup , so rich and green ... Billiawatha ( on Buffalo Bill ) . Judy Blessed as the immortal gods is he - A . PHILIPS Drunk as a dragon sure is he . H. Erskine Cease rude Boreas , blust ' ring ...
... thee all - I can no more ... Beautiful soup , so rich and green ... Billiawatha ( on Buffalo Bill ) . Judy Blessed as the immortal gods is he - A . PHILIPS Drunk as a dragon sure is he . H. Erskine Cease rude Boreas , blust ' ring ...
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... thee not in vain ; Take thee to a near relation , 66 Pop thee up the spout " for gain ! Thus I'll rid me of thy torments , Instrument of make insane ! I have learned by sad experience , Cycling ain't an easy game . Icycles , 1880 . MORE ...
... thee not in vain ; Take thee to a near relation , 66 Pop thee up the spout " for gain ! Thus I'll rid me of thy torments , Instrument of make insane ! I have learned by sad experience , Cycling ain't an easy game . Icycles , 1880 . MORE ...
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... thee with a tear , Oh , drop thy ten per cent . My heartstrings round thee cling Close as thy rim , cld friend- Remain a handy thing To borrow or to lend . Old piece , still circulate , And , Childers , of thy grace , Think well and ...
... thee with a tear , Oh , drop thy ten per cent . My heartstrings round thee cling Close as thy rim , cld friend- Remain a handy thing To borrow or to lend . Old piece , still circulate , And , Childers , of thy grace , Think well and ...
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Page 247 - WITH deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells. Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Page 36 - With coral clasps and amber studs ; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 240 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than, a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 214 - And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Page 31 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 26 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which seek through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home!
Page 39 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 37 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 37 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 16 - Tis but a step down yonder lane, And the little church stands near — The church where we were wed, Mary, I see the spire from here. But the graveyard lies between, Mary, And my step might break your rest — For I've laid you, darling, down to sleep, With your baby on your breast.