Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, With borrowed colour and curl, With fixed mechanical smile, With many a hackneyed wile,

Oh! is there not one maiden breast Which does not feel the moral beau… Of making worldly interest Subordinate to sense of duty? Who would not give up willingly

Bold-faced ranger (Perfect stranger) Meets two well-behaved young ladie… He’s attractive, Young and active -

Were I thy bride, Then the whole world beside Were not too wide To hold my wealth of love - Were I thy bride!

I’VE painted SHAKESPEARE al… “An infant” (even then at “play”!) “A boy,” with stage-ambition rife, Then “Married to ANN HATHAWA… “The bard’s first ticket night” (o…

I cannot tell what this love may b… That cometh to all but not to me. It cannot be kind as they’d imply, Or why do these gentle ladies sigh… It cannot be joy and rapture deep,

Oh, big was the bosom of brave A… And also the region that under it… In safety and peril remarkably coo… And he dwelt on the banks of the r… Each morning he went to his garden…

Oh, foolish fay, Think you because Man’s brave array My bosom thaws I’d disobey

I’ve often thought that headstrong… Of decent education, Determine all-important truths, With strange precipitation. The ever-ready victims they,

EARL JOYCE he was a kind old p… Whom nothing ever could put out, Though eighty-two, he still was he… Excepting as regarded gout. He had one unexampled daughter,

When a merry maiden marries, Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries; Every sound becomes a song, All is right and nothing’s wrong! From to-day and ever after

When I went to the Bar as a very… (Said I to myself - said I), I’ll work on a new and original pl… (Said I to myself - said I), I’ll never assume that a rogue or…

I once did know a Turkish man Whom I upon a two-pair-back met, His name it was EFFENDI KHAN BACKSHEESH PASHA BEN… A DOCTOR BROWN I also knew -

In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behind (He found it less exciting). But when away his regiment ran,

When I first put this uniform on, I said, as I looked in the glass, “It’s one to a million That any civilian My figure and form will surpass.