 I'd sell out heaven for something warm To prop a horrible inward sinking. Is there a way to forget to think? At your age, sir: home, fortune, friends, A dear girl's love — but I took to drink; The same old story; you know how it ends. If you could have...  J.M. Bellew's Readings from American Authors - Page 331879 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...; — The same old story; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You needn't laugh, sir; they were not then Such a...fair and young. Whose head was happy on this breast! |sung If you could have heard the songs 1 When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...ends. If you could have seen these classic features — You needn't laugh, sir, they were not Ibeu Such a burning libel on God's creatures: I was one of your handsome men! If you had seen HER, to fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breait! If yon could have heard the songs I >nng When... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...drink — The same old story ; yon know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features You needn't laugh, sir, they were not then Such a...burning libel on God's creatures: I was one of your lundsome men! If you had seen HER, so fair and young. Whose head was happy on this breast ! If you... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...same old story ; you know how it ends. If you c,ould have seen these classic features, You need n't laugh, Sir ; they were not then Such a burning libel...heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you would n't have guessed That ever I, Sir, should be straying From door to door, with fiddle and dog,... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - American poetry - 1863 - 32 pages
...; — The same old story; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You needn't laugh, Sir ; they were not then Such a...When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That ever I, Sir, should be straying From door to door, with fiddle and dog, Ragged and penniless,... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...drink ; The same old story ; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You needn't laugh, sir ; they were not then Such a...When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That ever I, sir, should be straying From door to door with fiddle and dog, Ragged, and penniless,... | |
 | American poetry - 1865 - 118 pages
...; — The same old story ; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features — You needn't laugh, sir ; they were not then Such a...When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed, That ever I, sir, should be straying From door to door, with fiddle and dog, Ragged and penniless,... | |
 | American poetry - 1865 - 564 pages
...; — The same old story ; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features — You needn't laugh, Sir; they were not then Such a...When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That ever I, Sir, should be straying From door to door, with fiddle and dog, Ragged and penniless,... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...same old story ; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You need n't laugh, sir ; they were not then Such a burning libel...creatures: I was one of your handsome men ! If you had seen HEII, so fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breast ! If you could have heard the song I sung... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...drink ;— The same old story; you know how it ends. V you could have seen these classic features,— You needn't laugh, Sir; they were not then Such a...this breast! If you could have heard the songs I sung From door to door, with fiddle and dog, Ragged and penniless, and playing When the wine went round,... | |
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