On a tree by a river a little tomt… Sang “Willow, titwillow, titwillo… And I said to him, “Dicky-bird, w… Singing 'Willow, titwillow, titwi… Is it weakness of intellect, birdi…

Were I thy bride, Then the whole world beside Were not too wide To hold my wealth of love - Were I thy bride!

A rich advowson, highly prized, For private sale was advertised; And many a parson made a bid; The REVEREND SIMON MAGUS… He sought the agent’s: “Agent, I

Take a pair of sparkling eyes, Hidden, ever and anon, In a merciful eclipse - Do not heed their mild surprise - Having passed the Rubicon.

When the night wind howls in the c… moonlight flies, And inky clouds, like funeral shro… When the footpads quail at the nig… bay the moon,

Oh! little maid! - (I do not know… Or who you are, so, as a safe prec… I’ll add) - Oh, buxom widow! marr… (As one of these must be your pres… Listen, while I unveil prophetic…

A gentleman of City fame Now claims your kind attention; East India broking was his game, His name I shall not mention: No one of finely-pointed sense

Haunted? Ay, in a social way By a body of ghosts in dread array… But no conventional spectres they… Appalling, grim, and tricky: I quail at mine as I’d never quai…

I’ve often thought that headstrong… Of decent education, Determine all-important truths, With strange precipitation. The ever-ready victims they,

I’ve wisdom from the East and fro… That’s subject to no academic rule… You may find it in the jeering of… Or distill it from the folly of a… I can teach you with a quip, if I…

There grew a little flower ‘Neath a great oak tree: When the tempest ’gan to lower Little heeded she: No need had she to cower,

Come mighty Must! Inevitable Shall! In thee I trust. Time weaves my coronal! Go mocking Is!

A wonderful joy our eyes to bless, In her magnificent comeliness, Is an English girl of eleven ston… And five foot ten in her dancing s… She follows the hounds, and on she…