 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 406 pages
...breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung 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, 16764 Ragged and penniless, and playing To you to-night for a glass of grog! She's married since, —... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1898 - 614 pages
...breast! If you could have 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...penniless, and playing To you to-night for a glass of grog! She 's married since,—a parson's wife; 'Twas better for her that we should part,— Better the soberest,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 588 pages
...breast, If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That ever I, sir, should be straying From door to...of grog. She's married since — a parson's wife. Т was better for her that we should part — Better the soberest, prosiest life Than a blasted home... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...breast ! If you could have 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...penniless, and playing To you to-night for a glass of grog I She's married since, — a parson's wife: 'T was better for her that we should part, — Better the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 966 pages
...breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you would n't have guessed th a whole soul's tasking: 'T is heaven alone that is given away, ' aud dog, Ragged and penniless, and playing To you to-night for a glass of grog ! She 's married since,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you would n't have guessed B = X { ! She 's married since, — a parson's wife: 'T was better for her that we should part, — Better... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That ever I, sir, should be straying From door to...prosiest life Than a blasted home and a broken heart. But little she dreamed, IIB on she went, Who kissed the coin that her lingers dropped! You've set me... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - 1903 - 380 pages
...breast ! If you could have 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, Eagged and penniless, and playing To you to-night for a glass of grog ! She 's married since, — a... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you wouldn't have guessed That ever I, sir, should be straying From door to...of grog ! She's married since, — a parson's wife ; Better the soberest, prosiest life Than a blasted home and a broken heart. I have seen her ? Once... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - Readers - 1904 - 440 pages
...breast! If you could have heard the songs I sung 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 playing To you to-night for a glass of grog. Better the soberest,... | |
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You needn't laugh, sir ; they were not then Such a burning libel on God's creatures : I was one of your handsome men ! If you had seen her, so fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine... 
