The Bee-Boy's Song Lyrics

It is not for them to criticize too minutely the methods the Irish followed, though they might deplore some of their results. During the past few years Ireland had been going throu...Read Full Lyrics

A Farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son-- How the dank sea-god showed the swain Means to restore ...Read Full Lyrics

I've never sailed the Amazon, I've never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will! Yes, weekly from Southampton Great steamers, white and ...Read Full Lyrics

It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the English began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy-willing t...Read Full Lyrics

They christened my brother of old-- And a saintly name he bears-- They gave him his place to hold At the head of the belfry-stairs, Where the minister-towers stand And the bre...Read Full Lyrics

After He Has Been Extemporising On an Instrument Not Of His Own Invention -- Browning Lo! What is this that I make -- sudden, supreme, unrehearsed -- This that my clutch in t...Read Full Lyrics

1911 "Gay go up and gay go down To ring the Bells of London Town." When London Town's asleep in bed You'll hear the Bells ring overhead. In excelsis gloria! Ringing for V...Read Full Lyrics

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose...Read Full Lyrics

"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout, For things are running crossways, and Maggie...Read Full Lyrics

The miracle of our land's speech--so known And long received, none marvel when 'tis shown! We have such wealth as Rome at her most pride Had not or (having) scattered not so w...Read Full Lyrics