#EnglishWriters
(Herrick) Since ye distemper and defile Sweet Here by the measured mile, Nor aught on jocund highways heed Except the evidence of speed;
I have made for you a song, And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me if it’s t… I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain,
CAIN and Abel were brothers born… (Koop—la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised c… (Koop—la! Come along! Co—hoe!) And Cain he farmed by the river—s…
Who hath desired the Sea?—the sig… The heave and the halt and the hur… The sleek-barrelled swell before s… Stark calm on the lap of the Line… His Sea in no showing the same h…
Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh tw… She heard the hops was doing well,… For said she: “The lads I’ve… They’re bound to be at hopping an… q| Let me up and go
The ’buses run to Battersea, The ’buses run to Bow The ’buses run to Westbourne Grov… And Nottinghill also; But I am sick of London town
Offshore where sea and skyline ble… In rain, the daylight dies; The sullen, shouldering swells att… Night and our sacrifice. Adown the stricken capes no flare—
THERE are four good legs to my… Priests and People and Lords and… I sits on all of 'em fair and squa… And that is reason it don’t break… I won’t trust one leg, nor two, no…
Naked and grey the Cotswolds stan… Beneath the autumn sun, And the stubble—fields on either h… Where Stour and Avon run. There is no change in the patient…
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,
THERE’s a little red—faced man, Which is Bobs, Rides the tallest ‘orse ’e can— Our Bobs. If it bucks or kicks or rears,
Who gives him the Bath? “I,” said the wet, Rank-Jungle-sweat, “I’ll give him the Bath!” Who’ll sing the psalms?
THE DROWSY carrier sways To the drowsy horses’ tramp. His axles winnow the sprays Of the hedge where the rabbit play… In the light of his single lamp.
OUR galley chafes against the Qu… The full tide calls us from the be… While far away across the sea Is set the isle that we would reac… The haven where we fain would be.
ERE stopping or turning, to put f… Is a charm that thy daies may be l… Though seventy—times—seven thee F… O’ertaking at corners is Death in… Sith main—roads for side—roads car…