Old-world Idylls and Other Verses"This selection is based upon one published at New York in 1880. With a few exceptions, the pieces are chosen from Vignettes in rhyme, 1873, and Proverbs in porcelain, 1877. Both volumes are out of print"--Page facing half-title |
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Only , as fresh young Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces , So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round ...
Only , as fresh young Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces , So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round ...
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Only , -as fresh young Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces ,So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round ...
Only , -as fresh young Beauty gleams From coffee - coloured laces ,So peeped from its old - fashioned dreams The fresher modern traces ; For idle mallet , hoop , and ball Upon the lawn were lying ; A magazine , a tumbled shawl , Round ...
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66 " Only till Sunday next , and then you'll wait Behind the White - Thorn , by the broken StileWe can go round and catch them at the Gate , All to Ourselves , for nearly one long Mile ; Dear Prue won't look , and Father he ' ll go on ...
66 " Only till Sunday next , and then you'll wait Behind the White - Thorn , by the broken StileWe can go round and catch them at the Gate , All to Ourselves , for nearly one long Mile ; Dear Prue won't look , and Father he ' ll go on ...
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He wears a brown old Brunswick coat , With silver buttons , -round his throat , A soft cravat ; -in all you note An elder fashion , 1 3 A strangeness , which , to us who shine In A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL .
He wears a brown old Brunswick coat , With silver buttons , -round his throat , A soft cravat ; -in all you note An elder fashion , 1 3 A strangeness , which , to us who shine In A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL .
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His were the times of Paint and Patch , And yet no Ranelagh could match The sober doves that round his thatch Spread tails and sidled ; He liked their ruffling , puffed content , For 10 OLD - WORLD IDYLLS .
His were the times of Paint and Patch , And yet no Ranelagh could match The sober doves that round his thatch Spread tails and sidled ; He liked their ruffling , puffed content , For 10 OLD - WORLD IDYLLS .
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BABETTE BALLADE BEAU beauty Belle Marquise beside better bird blue Boucher bright Caliph clear comes dance dead dear Death DENISE door doubt dream E'en eyes face fair feet flowers FRANK garden girl Give gone grace gray green grew grow hair Half hand head hear heard heart hope John kissed knew laughing LAWRENCE leaves less light lips lived look Love Maid morning mother Muse never night NINETTE NINON once pain pale pass pipe play Poets poor rest Rose round scarcely seek seemed shade sigh sing smile song Spring stand stay stirred strange surely sweet tear There's thing thou thought to-day turned Twas voice wait watch weary young
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