A Choice of Comic and Curious VerseJohn Michael Cohen |
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... eye , dark and wary , In search of a Fairy , Whose Rozez he knowzez Were not honeyed for he , But to breathe a sweet ... eyes like two live coils , While as for her spectrum , I always used to say , ' I could watch it till it boils ...
... eye , dark and wary , In search of a Fairy , Whose Rozez he knowzez Were not honeyed for he , But to breathe a sweet ... eyes like two live coils , While as for her spectrum , I always used to say , ' I could watch it till it boils ...
Page 281
... eyes , she did ! O , blow me light and blow me blow , I sort o ' thunk she wouldn't go - But , blow me eyes , she did ! As we walked along a lane With no one else to see , My heart was filled with sudden pain , And so I says to she ...
... eyes , she did ! O , blow me light and blow me blow , I sort o ' thunk she wouldn't go - But , blow me eyes , she did ! As we walked along a lane With no one else to see , My heart was filled with sudden pain , And so I says to she ...
Page 428
... eye - shots ! Bar Mr Hargreaves . Grocers a - tremble bash their brassy scales down , Careless of weight and hacking ... eyes and mutters : ' O dea certe . ' Back to ' Balmoral ' trips the goddess lightly ; Night comes at length , and Mr ...
... eye - shots ! Bar Mr Hargreaves . Grocers a - tremble bash their brassy scales down , Careless of weight and hacking ... eyes and mutters : ' O dea certe . ' Back to ' Balmoral ' trips the goddess lightly ; Night comes at length , and Mr ...
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A. G. PRYS-JONES ain't ANON beer bird bleed'n blow me eyes blue Cam-u-el CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN translated cold cried D. B. WYNDHAM LEWIS dead dear Doctor door drink father feet Finnigin Flannigan galoshes girl gone grave green hair HARRY GRAHAM head hear heard heart HILAIRE BELLOC Horny Hogan J. B. MORTON John Jones JUSTIN RICHARDSON keep King knew Lady laugh legs little vulgar Boy live look Lord Tomnoddy maid married morning MORRIS BISHOP mother never night nose o'er OGDEN NASH once Poems poor pray Punch magazine R. F. C. HULL reprinted by permission Reproduced from Punch rhyme round sing smiled song soul street sweet tell thee There's things THOMAS HOOD thou thought took Twas W. H. AUDEN wife wish Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò young