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  • Sorrows of Werther
    Werther had a love for Charlotte
    Such as words could never utter;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Age of Wisdom
    Ho! pretty page, with the dimpled chin,
      That never has known the Barber's shear,
    34 lines, 1 comment
  • Little Billee
    There were three sailors of Bristol city
    Who took a boat and went to sea.
    43 lines
  • A Credo
    For the sole edification
    Of this decent congregation,
    39 lines
  • At the Church-Gate
    Although I enter not,
    Yet round about the spot,
    30 lines
  • Ad Ministram
    Dear Lucy, you know what my wish is, --
    I hate all your Frenchified fuss:
    16 lines
  • The Ballad of Bouillabaisse
    A street there is in Paris famous,
    For which no rhyme our language yields,
    89 lines
  • The Cane-Bottom'd Chair
    In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars,
    And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars,
    56 lines
  • The Mahogany Tree
    Christmas is here:
    Winds whistle shrill,
    56 lines
  • A Tragic Story
    There lived a sage in days of yore,
    And he a handsome pigtail wore;
    24 lines, 4 comments
  • The Chronicle Of The Drum
    Part I.
    At Paris, hard by the Maine barriers,
    534 lines
  • Abd-El-Kader At Toulon Or, The Caged Hawk
    No more, thou lithe and long-winged hawk, of desert-life for thee;
    No more across the sultry sands shalt thou go swooping free:
    49 lines
  • The King Of Brentford’s Testament
    The noble King of Brentford
    Was old and very sick,
    255 lines
  • The White Squall
    On deck, beneath the awning,
    I dozing lay and yawning;
    147 lines
  • Peg Of Limavaddy
    Riding from Coleraine
    (Famed for lovely Kitty),
    185 lines
  • May-Day Ode
    But yesterday a naked sod
    The dandies sneered from Rotten Row,
    153 lines
  • The Yankee Volunteers
    "A surgeon of the United States' army says that on inquiring of
    the Captain of his company, he found that NINE-TENTHS of the men
    76 lines
  • The Pen And The Album
    "I am Miss Catherine's book," the album speaks;
    "I've lain among your tomes these many weeks;
    72 lines
  • Mrs. Katherine’s Lantern
    "Coming from a gloomy court,
    Place of Israelite resort,
    47 lines
  • Lucy’s Birthday
    Seventeen rosebuds in a ring,
    Thick with sister flowers beset,
    25 lines
  • Piscator And Piscatrix
    As on this pictured page I look,
    This pretty tale of line and hook
    58 lines
  • The Rose Upon My Balcony
    The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,
    Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring;
    13 lines
  • Ronsard To His Mistress
    "Quand vous serez bien vielle, le soir a la chandelle
    Assise aupres du feu devisant et filant,
    37 lines
  • A Doe In The City
    Little KITTY LORIMER,
    Fair, and young, and witty,
    41 lines
  • The Last Of May
    By fate's benevolent award,
    Should I survive the day,
    20 lines
  • Ah, Bleak And Barren Was The Moor
    Ah! bleak and barren was the moor,
    Ah! loud and piercing was the storm,
    17 lines
  • Song Of The Violet
    A humble flower long time I pined
    Upon the solitary plain,
    25 lines
  • Fairy Days
    Beside the old hall-fire—upon my nurse's knee,
    Of happy fairy days—what tales were told to me!
    37 lines
  • Pocahontas
    Wearied arm and broken sword
    Wage in vain the desperate fight:
    33 lines
  • From Pocahontas
    Returning from the cruel fight
    How pale and faint appears my knight!
    17 lines
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