Category: Poetry
Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of other changes made, can be found at the end of the book. For this text version, diacritical marks that cannot be represented in plain text are shown in the following manner:
HER age is twelve; half bold, half coy-- Her friends all call her "Sailor-Boy"-- With sweet brown eyes beyond compare, And close-cropped, curling, sunny hair; Her smart straw ha...
5. Part 5O WIND of March! O biting breeze! It nips the nose and nips the trees; It whirls with fury down the street, It makes us flee in quick retreat, And gives us cold and makes us sne...
7. Part 7Ah me! what a revel of exquisite colours, What costumes in pink and in white and in blue, By smart _canoistes_ and by pretty girl-scullers, Are sported in randan, in skiff, and...
2. Part 2Let others sport the fluffy hat, The "Sailor Boy," or "Granny;" The "Bargee," or some other that Is anything but canny. If petticoats be short or long, Or fuller be or scanter,...
4. Part 4Ah! why should one sweet damsel frown, And droop her pretty eyelids down? Or quickly hush her merry notes, And clasp her pliant knees? A pouting pet in petticoats, Beneath the t...
3. Part 3An impudent down-tilted sailor hat-- Begirt with sheeny ribbon lily white-- That throws in shade a pair of pure grey eyes-- Dark-lashed, delightful, luminous, and sweet-- But le...
1. Part 1Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of other changes made, can be found at the end of the book. For this text version, diacritical marks that c...
8. Part 8_The Globe._--"The bard not only of the lazy but the leisured.... Mr. Ashby-Sterry is a humourist, too, who sees the ludicrous as well as the pleasant side of life, and describe...