 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
 | Humorous poetry - 1867 - 530 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...I sung When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guess'd That ever I, Sir, should be straying From door to door, with fiddle and dog, Ragged and penniless,... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 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 burning libel on God's creatures: I was cue of your handsome men ! If you had seen her, so fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breast!... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 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,... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - Dialogues - 1869 - 208 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,... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...drink; — The same old story : you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You need'nt laugh, sir : they were not then Such a...on God's creatures : I was one of your handsome men ! 10. If you had seen HER, so fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breast ! If you could have... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Poets, American - 1869 - 192 pages
...ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You need n't laugh, Sir; they were not thon Such a burning libel on God's creatures : I was one of your h<ftidsome men! If you had seen HER, so fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breast! If you... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...same old story ; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You need n't o the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore ! Leave...heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quo would n't have guessed That ever I, sir, should be straying From door to door, with fiddle and dog,... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 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,... | |
 | Readers - 1872 - 514 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, and... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...same old story ; you know how it ends. If you could have seen these classic features, — You need n't swum the brook, and waded the mire, Till lus I If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you would n't have guessed That... | |
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