The Home Book of Verse: American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2H. Holt, 1918 - 4009 pages |
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Page 2008
... TREE CHRISTMAS is here : Winds whistle shrill , Icy and chill , Little care we : Little we fear Weather without , Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree . Once on the boughs Birds of rare plume Sang , in its bloom ; Night - birds are we ...
... TREE CHRISTMAS is here : Winds whistle shrill , Icy and chill , Little care we : Little we fear Weather without , Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree . Once on the boughs Birds of rare plume Sang , in its bloom ; Night - birds are we ...
Page 2009
... tree ! Drain we the cup.- Friend , art afraid ? Spirits are laid In the Red Sea . Mantle it up ; Empty it yet ; Let us forget , Round the old tree . Sorrows , begone ! Life and its ills , Duns and their bills , Bid we to flee . Come ...
... tree ! Drain we the cup.- Friend , art afraid ? Spirits are laid In the Red Sea . Mantle it up ; Empty it yet ; Let us forget , Round the old tree . Sorrows , begone ! Life and its ills , Duns and their bills , Bid we to flee . Come ...
Page 2015
... tree , He beateth - to his little wing ; he chirketh lustily ; But when I see sweet Alison , the words begin to fail ; I wot that I shall die of Love - an I die not of Ale . Her lips are like the muscadel ; her brows are black as ink ...
... tree , He beateth - to his little wing ; he chirketh lustily ; But when I see sweet Alison , the words begin to fail ; I wot that I shall die of Love - an I die not of Ale . Her lips are like the muscadel ; her brows are black as ink ...
Page 2019
... tree , Mocks married men ; for thus sings he , Cuckoo ; Cuckoo , cuckoo , O word of fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws , And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks , and ...
... tree , Mocks married men ; for thus sings he , Cuckoo ; Cuckoo , cuckoo , O word of fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws , And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks , and ...
Page 2052
... tarried : But what shall we do for a ring ? " They sailed away , for a year and a day , To the land where the bong - tree grows ; And there in a wood a Piggy - wig stood , With a ring at the end of his nose , 2052 Just Nonsense.
... tarried : But what shall we do for a ring ? " They sailed away , for a year and a day , To the land where the bong - tree grows ; And there in a wood a Piggy - wig stood , With a ring at the end of his nose , 2052 Just Nonsense.
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