I’ll tell you a plan for gaining wealth, Better than banking, trade or leases — Take a bank note and fold it up, And then you will find your money in creases! This wonderful plan, without danger or loss, Keeps your cash in your hands, where nothing can trouble it; And every time that you [...]
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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone. Popularity: 22%
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When from your gems of thought I turn To those pure orbs, your heart to learn, I scarce know which to prize most high — The bright i-dea, or the bright dear-eye. Popularity: 15%
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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today. Popularity: 17%
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Hark, echo! — Hark; echo! ‘Tis the sound Of archangels, in happiness wrapt Popularity: 14%
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It was my choice or chance or curse To adopt the cause for better or worse And with my worldly goods & wit And soul & body worship it Popularity: 14%
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THE only king by right divine Is Ellen King, and were she mine I’d strive for liberty no more, But hug the glorious chains I wore. Her bosom is an ivory throne, Where tyrant virtue reigns alone; No subject vice dare interfere, To check the power that governs here. O! would she deign to rule [...]
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When wit, and wine, and friends have met And laughter crowns the festive hour In vain I struggle to forget Still does my heart confess thy power And fondly turn to thee! But Octavia, do not strive to rob My heart of all that soothes its pain The mournful hope that every throb [...]
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Mille, mille, mille Mille, mille, mille Decollavimus, unus homo! Mille, mille, mille, mille, decollavimus! Mille, mille, mille! Vivat qui mille mille occidit! Tantum vini habet nemo Quantum sanguinis effudit! — which may be thus paraphrased. A thousand, a thousand, a thousand! A thousand, a thousand, a thousand! We with one warrior have slain. A thousand, [...]
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1830 From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I [...]
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