The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe. Complete EdHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 308 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
APOLOGUE beauty Ben-ammi Blarney Stone bless Brabantio Brahmin Caliph chanced charming cried dame dead dear Dervis doubt e'en earth eyes face fain fair fate fear fellow fisherman fond fools gave girl gold golden grace happy head hear heard heart History of Cuba honest honor John MacBride King kisses knave lady laugh learned LEGEND Little Jerry live look lover maid maiden merry mighty mind moral Muse ne'er never night Northwind o'er once Othello perfect kiss pious pleasant poor pray pride PSI UPSILON queen queer quoth replied rhyme Richard Y royal saint Saint Verena sigh Sire smile sooth soul story sure SUSAN BROWN tale tell thee There's thing thou told Tom Brown truth unto Wandering Jew Whereat wife wish woman wonder word young younker youth
Popular passages
Page 136 - God bless me ! — but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried "Ho ! What have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!
Page 136 - And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
Page 135 - IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!
Page 32 - IT was an honest fisherman, I knew him passing well; — And he lived by a little pond, Within a little dell. A grave and quiet man was he, Who loved his hook and rod, — So even ran his line of life, His neighbors thought it odd. For science and for books, he said He never had a wish, — No school to him was worth a fig, Except a school of fish.
Page 23 - I mean to take the knocker off, Put crape upon the door, Or hint to John that I am gone To stay a month or more. I do not tremble when I meet The stoutest of my foes, But Heaven defend me from the friend Who never, never goes! Early Rising "Goo bless the man who first invented sleep!
Page 26 - SINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale, — Bless me ! this is pleasant, Riding on the Rail ! Men of different ' stations ' In the eye of Fame, Here are very quickly Coming to the same.
Page 97 - AH me ! those joyous days are gone ! I little dreamt, till they were flown, How fleeting were the hours ! For, lest he break the pleasing spell, Time bears for youth a muffled bell, And hides his face in flowers...
Page 32 - All day this fisherman would sit Upon an ancient log, And gaze into the water, like Some sedentary frog; With all the seeming innocence, And that unconscious look, That other people often wear To charm the fish he never spoke, — Although his voice was fine, He found the most convenient way Was just to drop a line.
Page 28 - Next morning twelve citizens came ('Twas the coroner bade them attend), To the end that it might be determined How the man had determined his end ! " The man was a lawyer, I hear," Quoth the foreman who sat on the corse.
Page 64 - Seasons," said It was a glorious thing to rise in season ; But then he said it — lying — in his bed, At ten o'clock AM — the very reason He wrote so charmingly. The simple fact is His preaching wasn't sanctioned by his practice.