BOB POLTER was a navvy, and His hands were coarse, and dirty t… His homely face was rough and tann… His time of life was thirty-two. He lived among a working clan

MACPHAIRSON CLONGLO… Was the son of an elderly labourin… You’ve guessed him a Scotchman, s… And p’r’aps altogether, shrewd rea… From the bonnie blue Forth to the…

An elderly person– a prophet by tr… With his quips and tips On withered old lips, He married a young and a beautiful… The cunning old blade!

Would you know the kind of maid Sets my heart a flame-a? Eyes must be downcast and staid, Cheeks must flush for shame-a! She may neither dance nor sing,

When Britain really ruled the wav… (In good Queen Bess’s time) The House of Peers made no preten… To intellectual eminence, Or scholarship sublime;

A gentleman of City fame Now claims your kind attention; East India broking was his game, His name I shall not mention: No one of finely-pointed sense

Once a fairy Light and airy Married with a mortal; Men, however, Never, never

STRIKE the concertina’s melanch… Blow the spirit-stirring harp like… Let the piano’s martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past, For of AGIB, PRINCE OF T…

A leafy cot, where no dry rot Had ever been by tenant seen, Where ivy clung and wopses stung, Where beeses hummed and drummed an… Where treeses grew and breezes ble…

When maiden loves, she sits and si… She wanders to and fro; Unbidden tear-drops fill her eyes, And to all questions she replies, With a sad heigho!

OH! listen to the tale of little… She kept a small post-office in th… She loved a skilled mechanic, who… A gentle executioner whose name wa… I think I hear you say, “A dreadf…

PART I. At a pleasant evening party I had… One whom I will call ELVIRA, a… MR. TUPPER and the Poets, very… For I’ve always been distinguishe…

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

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

If you’re anxious for to shine in… of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of t… plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and…