What Cheer: An Anthology of American and British Humorous and Witty Verse, Gathered, Sifted, and Salted, with an IntrodDavid Thompson Watson McCord Modern Library, 1955 - 515 pages |
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... Face As a beauty I am not a star , There are others more handsome , by far , But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it . It's the people in front get the jar ! ANTHONY EUWER There was a young woman named Bright , Whose speed was ...
... Face As a beauty I am not a star , There are others more handsome , by far , But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it . It's the people in front get the jar ! ANTHONY EUWER There was a young woman named Bright , Whose speed was ...
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... face . To vindicate the British law is my declared objective , Yet doing so involves an end of Sherlock Holmes , de- tective . But I must face the issue , carry on without a tremor , Though inwardly impaled upon the horns of a di- lemma ...
... face . To vindicate the British law is my declared objective , Yet doing so involves an end of Sherlock Holmes , de- tective . But I must face the issue , carry on without a tremor , Though inwardly impaled upon the horns of a di- lemma ...
Page 281
... face on it That them city boarders gave Sid . It hed a tube like the one you gave me Only I couldn't get the whole thing Into Sid's mouth . She wiped her face with her apron and went on . -So I laid it onto Sid's chest . ' Twa'n't long ...
... face on it That them city boarders gave Sid . It hed a tube like the one you gave me Only I couldn't get the whole thing Into Sid's mouth . She wiped her face with her apron and went on . -So I laid it onto Sid's chest . ' Twa'n't long ...
Common terms and phrases
a-waltzing A. E. HOUSMAN A. P. HERBERT American ANONYMOUS anthologies Araminta Arthur Bacon and eggs Ballad Bill bird blue Brown built bustles bustle-maker called cheese DON MARQUIS drink E. B. WHITE editor England English eyes fish Frost funny girls green heard heart humorous J. C. Squire J. K. STEPHEN Jane John Kid March L. A. G. STRONG Lady Lear lies light verse limerick live London look Matilda Miniver Miss Moneypenny-Wilson Montana MORRIS BISHOP night o'er OGDEN NASH once parody Petrillo Poems poet published quatrain rhyme RICHARD ARMOUR Robert sing SIR A. P. HERBERT Sir J. C. Squire SIR W. S. GILBERT smile Song stanzas Stephen sweet tell thee There's thing thou thought titwillow Twas wife William wish wonder word Young friend