The Silver Treasury of Light Verse: From Geoffrey Chaucer to Ogden Nash |
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Page 141
... Don't be mopy and flat - they don't fine you for that If you're properly quaint and amusing ! Though your wife ran away with a soldier that day And took with her your trifle of money ; Bless your heart , they don't mind - they're ...
... Don't be mopy and flat - they don't fine you for that If you're properly quaint and amusing ! Though your wife ran away with a soldier that day And took with her your trifle of money ; Bless your heart , they don't mind - they're ...
Page 143
... Don't be mopy and flat - they don't fine you for that If you're properly quaint and amusing ! Though your wife ran away with a soldier that day And took with her your trifle of money ; Bless your heart , they don't mind - they're ...
... Don't be mopy and flat - they don't fine you for that If you're properly quaint and amusing ! Though your wife ran away with a soldier that day And took with her your trifle of money ; Bless your heart , they don't mind - they're ...
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... don't kill me , I'll lay down and die . Chorus : Rye whisky , rye whisky , Rye whisky , I cry , If I don't get rye whisky , I surely will die . I'll tune up my fiddle , And I'll rosin my bow , I'll make myself welcome , Wherever I go ...
... don't kill me , I'll lay down and die . Chorus : Rye whisky , rye whisky , Rye whisky , I cry , If I don't get rye whisky , I surely will die . I'll tune up my fiddle , And I'll rosin my bow , I'll make myself welcome , Wherever I go ...
Contents
Went to the Road That Lies | 16 |
Editors Preface | 19 |
Paul Engle | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Akond of Swat Alexander Pope Anonymous beauty bird blood blue boys cried D. H. Lawrence dark dead Dean death doth drink dull e. e. cummings Edward Lear Elynour eyes Festel to Fose Frankie give grave Harry Graham hate head heart heigh-ho John Henry John the Red Johnny kind kiss lady Lawd lemmings live look Lord Lyke Malder merry Milder to Malder mind Montana Moscow ne'er never night numbers o'er Ogden Nash pleasant poem poet poor praise Red Nose reply rhyme Samuel Hoffenstein says Festel says John says Milder Sieve sing Sir W. S. Gilbert Song soul steam drill sweet Tell thee There's theyr things thou thought turn verse W. H. Auden Who's the fool Winthrop Palmer wise wish words write wrong young