#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Through learned and laborious year… They set themselves to find Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fea… To heap upon mankind. ALl that they drew from Heaven ab…
WHEEL me gently to the garage, s… No more for me the record and the… That cursèd left—hand cylinder the… Is pinking past redemption—I am d… They’ll never strike a mixture tha…
I’VE A HEAD like a concertina:… I’ve a mouth like an old potato, a… But I’ve had my fun o’ the Corp’r… And I’m here in the Clink for a t… With a second—hand overcoat under…
NOW the new year reviving old des… The restless soul to open sea aspi… Where the Blue Peter flickers fro… And the grimed stoker feeds the en… Coupons, alas, depart with all the…
Me that 'ave been what I’ve been… Me that 'ave gone where I’ve gone… Me that 'ave seen what I’ve seen… 'Ow can I ever take on With awful old England again,
They are fools who kiss and tell"… Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he’ll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you se…
HE So long as 'twuz me alone An’ there wasn’t no other chaps, I was praoud as a King on 'is thr… Happier tu, per’aps.
Beyond the path of the outmost sun… Further than ever comet flared or… Live such as fought and sailed and… They are purged of pride because t… They sit at wine with the Maidens…
WE thought we ranked above the ch… Others might fall, not we, for we… Merchants in freedom. So, of our… We let our servants drug our stren… The pleasure and the poison had it…
I ate my fill of a whale that die… And stranded after a month at sea.… There is a pain in my inside. Why have the Gods afflicted me? Ow! I am purged till I am a wra…
Our sister sayeth such and such, And we must bow to her behests. Our sister toileth overmuch, Our little maid that hath no breas… A field untilled, a web unwove,
How comes it that, at even—tide, When level beams should show most… Man, failing, takes unfailing prid… In memories of his frolic youth? Venus and Liber fill their hour;
Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a f… He spoke of the heat of India as… Came on a four months’ visit, to “… And I got him to sign an agreemen… March came in with the koil. Page…
WHERE first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each was appointed a Man Her Prince and Ruler to be. But after this was ordained
WE’VE got the cholerer in camp—i… We’re dyin’ in the wilderness the… It’s before us, an’ be’ind us, an’… An’ the doctor’s just reported we’… Oh, strike your camp an’ go, the…