I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back. |
I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own |
I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own |
I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its dappled hide, / But when it came to know me well / It fell upon the buttered side. |
I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peeping in at morn. |
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence |
If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed the crooked pins in / The water, dropped by boaters / To catch our heedless joles. |
It was not in the winter / Our loving lot was cast! / It was the time of roses, / We plucked them as we passed! |
It's very convenient and saves me from having to plan and cook meals. |
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. |
Never go to France - Unless you know the lingo, If you do like me, You will repent by jingo |
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November! |
No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day - |
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap! |
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! |