Pagett, M.P. Lyrics

About the 15th of this month you may expectour Mr. -- , with the usual Spring Seed, etc., Catalogues.– Florist’s Announcement. It’s forty in the shade to-day, the spouti...Read Full Lyrics

Elephants of the Gun-Teams We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees. We bowed our necks to service--they ne'er were...Read Full Lyrics

Go, stalk the red deer o'er the heather, Ride, follow the fox if you can! But, for pleasure and profit together, Allow me the hunting of Man-- The chase of the Human, the searc...Read Full Lyrics

If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. There's little left, indeed, of the city you will read of, And all the folk I write about ...Read Full Lyrics

Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But light your churchwarden And judge it according, When I've told you the tro...Read Full Lyrics

"They are fools who kiss and tell" -- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you see, On the e...Read Full Lyrics

When the robust and Brass-bound Man commissioned first for sea His fragile raft, Poseidon laughed, and "Mariner," said he, "Behold, a Law immutable I lay on thee and thine, That...Read Full Lyrics

Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at whist, A chair is vacant where we dine. His place forgets him; other men H...Read Full Lyrics

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. In deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not sh...Read Full Lyrics

If any God should say, 'I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it'- who would not lift Heart, eye, and hand in passion o'er the gift? If...Read Full Lyrics