The Times, the Telegraph, and Other Poems

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S.O. Beeton, 1866 - 260 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 47 - SINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale, — Bless me ! this is pleasant, Riding on the Rail ! Men of different ' stations ' In the eye of Fame, Here are very quickly Coming to the same.
الصفحة 157 - GOD bless the man who first invented sleep !' So Sancho Panza said, and so say I : And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself; nor try To make it — as the lucky fellow might — A close monopoly by patent-right ! Yes — bless the man who first invented sleep...
الصفحة 38 - Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reason to apprehend You may find it waxed, at the farther end. By some plebeian vocation \\ Or, worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That plagued some worthy relation ! But Miss MacBride had something beside Her lofty birth to nourish her pride — For rich was the old paternal MacBride, According to public rumor : And he lived " up town,
الصفحة 180 - He reads my daily paper through Before I've seen a word; He scans the lyric (that I wrote) And thinks it quite absurd; He calmly smokes my last cigar, And coolly asks for more; He opens everything he sees Except the entry door!
الصفحة 248 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
الصفحة 181 - AGAIN I hear that creaking step! — He's rapping at the door! — Too well I know the boding sound That ushers in a bore. I do not tremble when I meet The stoutest of my foes, But Heaven defend me from the friend Who comes — but never goes!
الصفحة 225 - Are Riches worth the getting ? They must be bravely sought ; With wishing and with fretting The boon cannot be bought : To all the prize is open, But only he can take it Who says, with Roman courage, " P II find a -way, or make it...
الصفحة 37 - That her wit should never have made her vain, Was, like her face, sufficiently plain ; And as to her musical powers, Although she sang until she was hoarse, And issued notes with a Banker's force, They were just such notes as we never indorse For any acquaintance of ours ! XII.
الصفحة 35 - The meaning of meek she never knew, But imagined the phrase had something to do With " Moses," a peddling German Jew, Who, like all hawkers, the country through, Was " a person of no position ; " And it seemed to her exceedingly plain, If the word was really known to pertain To a vulgar German, it wasn't germane To a lady of high condition ! Even her graces — not her grace — For that was in the " vocative case "— Chilled with the touch of her icy face, Sat very stiffly upon her!
الصفحة 35 - Proud abroad, and proud at home, Proud wherever she chanced to come, — When she was glad, and when she was glum; Proud as the head of a Saracen Over the door of a tippling shop! — Proud as a duchess, proud as a fop, " Proud as a boy with a bran-new top,

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