The Ingoldsby Lyrics
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217089708
Paperback|9780217089708
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1je Uirtim of T T 7HY mourns my'Eugene? In his dark eye of blue Why trembles the tear drop to sympathy due ? Ah why must a bosom so pure and refin'd Thus vibrate, all nerve, at the woes of mankind ? Yet dear are the drops by Philanthropy shed O'er the victim of Sorrow's unfortunate head, Nor beams there a gem with a ray so divine As the tear that bedews Sensibility's shrine. Say, friend of my soul, then, what story of woe, Thus bids the soft streams of humanity flow; Oh' give thy Lorenzo thy sorrows to share. And together we'll mourn for the child of despair. Like a sunbeam the clouds of the tempest between, A smile lights the eye of the pensive Eugene; And thus in soft accents the mourner replies, Hang your mustard it brings the tears into my eyes. poplar. AY, here stands the Poplar, so tall and so stately, On whose tender rind?'twas a little one then? We carved her initials; though not very lately, We think in the year eighteen hundred and ten. Yes, here is the G which proclaim'd Georgiana; Our heart's empress then; see, 'tis grown all askew; And it's not without grief we perforce entertain a Conviction, it now looks much more like a Q. This should be the great D, too, that once stood for Dobbin, Her loved patronymic?ah can it be so ? Its once fair proportions, time, too, has beeri robbing; A D we'll be Deed if it isn't an O - Alas how the soul sentimental it vexes, That thus on our labours stern Chronos should frown; Should change our soft liquids to izzards and X es, And turn true-love's alphabet all upside down IV /T Y first on a schoolboy your bounty bestows, -- Though -'tis commonly seen at the end of his nose; My second you'll say, when my whole you explore, Which once upon two legs w...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217089708 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217089704 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 236 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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