Mother Goose for Grown Folks: A Christmas ReadingRudd & Carleton, 1860 - 111 pages |
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... heart a stoic pride Folds as a velvet pall ; Yet hides a meagreness within , Worse beggary than all ! Coming , coming always ! And the bluff Apostle waits As the throng pours upward from the earth To Heaven's eternal gates . In shreds ...
... heart a stoic pride Folds as a velvet pall ; Yet hides a meagreness within , Worse beggary than all ! Coming , coming always ! And the bluff Apostle waits As the throng pours upward from the earth To Heaven's eternal gates . In shreds ...
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... heart , From the great world , where misery maketh moan ? Ah , Mother Goose ! if such the tale it tells , Sing us no more your rhyme of rings and bells ! But may not ' t were a rare device in- - deed ! - The wondrous oracle in both ways ...
... heart , From the great world , where misery maketh moan ? Ah , Mother Goose ! if such the tale it tells , Sing us no more your rhyme of rings and bells ! But may not ' t were a rare device in- - deed ! - The wondrous oracle in both ways ...
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... heart , And the feverish brain , Have spelled out to life's end The long lesson of pain . Yet , stay ! To my mind An uneasy suggestion Comes up , that there may be Two sides to the question . That , while here and there proving ...
... heart , And the feverish brain , Have spelled out to life's end The long lesson of pain . Yet , stay ! To my mind An uneasy suggestion Comes up , that there may be Two sides to the question . That , while here and there proving ...
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... hearts , Whence never the vulture Of hunger departs ! How long on the husks Of your life will ye feed , Ignoring the soul , And her famishing need ? Bethink you , when lulled In your shallow content , ' T was to Lazarus only The angels ...
... hearts , Whence never the vulture Of hunger departs ! How long on the husks Of your life will ye feed , Ignoring the soul , And her famishing need ? Bethink you , when lulled In your shallow content , ' T was to Lazarus only The angels ...
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... hearts every year To your coming unfold , And sweet memories stir Through the hardening mould , We feel how earth's blossomings Surely are given To keep the soul fresh For the spring - time of heaven ! BAA , BAA , BLACK SHEEP ! " Baa ...
... hearts every year To your coming unfold , And sweet memories stir Through the hardening mould , We feel how earth's blossomings Surely are given To keep the soul fresh For the spring - time of heaven ! BAA , BAA , BLACK SHEEP ! " Baa ...
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12 assorted volumes 130 GRAND STREET 50 cents BABIE BELL BANBURY CROSS baste the mutton BEATRICE CENCI Beggars Bessy Brooks BIG SHOE BLACK SPIDERS BLACKBIRDS BO-PEEP bound in muslin bowl BROOKS BUILDING charming Christmas Pie COBWEBS AND BROOMS colored plate paper Comes containing 12 assorted CRADLED IN GREEN DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY Dame DOESTICKS doth earth eyes fancy fresh gift of childhood glory Gotham hath heaven heel hint Humpty Dumpty illustrated JACK HORNER JINGLING AND JANGLING Life's LITTLE BOY BLUE Little Jack lived London edition MAD HORSE McLenan Monday Mother Goose Novel old woman peck of pickle peep Peter Piper picked pickle peppers Peter plain Poem poor price $1 oo price 50 cents RAGS AND ROBES ring RUDD & CARLETON Shakspeare sheep side sing SOLOMON GRUNDY song soul thing THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Tommy Snooks truth twist untwist VICTUALS AND DRINK wear whey WOMAN OF SURREY wonder Youth
Popular passages
Page 23 - THREE wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer.
Page 13 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 102 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.
Page 34 - I lent him to a lady, To ride a mile away ; She whipped him, she slashed him, She rode him through the mire ; I would not lend my pony now For all the lady's hire. CCLVI. As Tommy Snooks, and Bessy Brooks, Were walking out one Sunday, Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks,
Page 70 - There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet.
Page 52 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie; When the pie was opened, The birds began. to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in his counting-house Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor Eating bread and honey...
Page 43 - LEG over leg, As the dog went to Dover ; When he came to a stile, Jump he went over.
Page 30 - There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise...
Page 40 - There was an old man of Tobago, Who lived on rice, gruel, and sago ; Till, much to his bliss, His physician said this, — • To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go.
Page 47 - Hark! Hark/ The dogs do bark. The beggars are coming to town. Some in rags, Some in tags, And some in velvet gowns.