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An Ode
© Richard Barnfield
As it fell upon a dayIn the merry month of May,Sitting in a pleasant shadeWhich a grove of myrtles made,Beasts did leap and birds did sing,Trees did grow and plants did spring;Every thing did banish moan,Save the nightingale alone
A Thought on Death: November, 1814
© Anna Lætitia Barbauld
When life as opening buds is sweet,And golden hopes the fancy greet,And Youth prepares his joys to meet,--Alas! how hard it is to die!
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
© Anna Lætitia Barbauld
A map of every country known,With not a foot to call his own
A Sestina of Memories
© Ball J. E.
When you were nine, and I was six years old,Do you remember how we wandered forth,Two small explorers, through the summer fields,With apple turnovers provisioned well,And trampled down the farmer's mowing grass,In haste to pluck the little red-stemmed rose?
And how the farmer in his fury roseWith hot red face, as ogres wore of old,And eyeing angrily his battered grass,With wingèd words he drove the culprits forth,And swore a whipping would be theirs as wellThe next time they profaned his sacred fields?
Regretfully we left those sunny fields(For there alone it grew, our longed-for rose),And sate us down beside a little wellThat bubbled up 'midst stonework grey and old,And watched the slow soft runlets spouting forth,To lose themselves amidst the spongy grass
Automne
© Guillaume Apollinaire
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneuxEt son bœuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automneQui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
A Taking Girl
© Anonymous
She took my hand in sheltered nooks,She took my candy and my books,She took the lustrous wrap of fur,She took those gloves I bought for her
A Sonnet upon the Pitiful Burning of the Globe Playhouse in London
© Anonymous
Now sitt thee downe, Melpomene,Wrapt in a sea-coal robe,And tell the dolefull tragedie,That late was playd at Globe;For noe man that can singe and sayeBut was scard on St
A pansy who lived in Khartoum
© Anonymous
A pansy who lived in KhartoumTook a lesbian up to his room, And they argued a lot About who would do whatAnd how and with which and to whom.
An old maid in the land of Aloha
© Anonymous
An old maid in the land of AlohaGot wrapped in the coils of a boa; And as the snake squeezed, The old maid, not displeased,Cried: "Darling! I love it! Samoa!"
A Little Lamb
© Anonymous
Mary had a little lamb,She ate it with mint sauce,And everywhere that Mary wentThe lamb went too, of course.
A lady while dining at Crewe
© Anonymous
A lady while dining at CreweFound an elephant's whang in her stew. Said the waiter, "Don't shout, Or wave it about,Or the others will all want one too."
A Jest of Robin Hood
© Anonymous
Lyth and lystyn, gentilmen, All that nowe be here;Of Litell Johnn, that was the knigh{.e}es man, Goode myrth ye shall here.
A flea and a fly in a flue
© Anonymous
A flea and a fly in a flueWere imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the fly: `Let us flee' Said the flea: `Let us fly!'So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A Book and a Jug and a Dame
© Anonymous
A book and a jug and a dame,And a nice cozy nook for the same; "And I don't care a damn," Said Omar Khayyam,"What you say, it's a great little game."
Ay Me, Ay Me, I Sigh the Scythe A-field
© Anonymous
Ay me, ay me, I sigh to see the scythe a-field; Down goeth the grass, soon wrought to wither'd hay:Ay me, alas! ay me, alas, that beauty needs must yield, And princes pass, as grass doth fade away.
At Liberty I Sit and See
© Anonymous
At liberty I sit and see Them, that have erst laugh'd me to scorn,Whipp'd with the whip that scourged me: And now they ban that they were born.
As I was so be Yee
© Anonymous
As I was so be yee,As I am yee shall be:That I gaue, that I haue,That I spent, that I had:Thus I end all my cost,That I left, that I lost.
As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo
© Anonymous
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo,As I walked out in Laredo one day,I spied a poor cowboy wrapped up in white linen,Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay.
