The Humourous Poetry of the English Language

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Had predetermined to restore
Twofold all he had before;
His servants, horses, oxen, cows--
Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse!
SENTIMENTAL.
The rose that blushes like the morn,
Bedecks the valleys low:
And so dost thou, sweet infant corn,
My Angelina's toe.
But on the rose there grows a thorn,
That breeds disastrous woe:
And so dost thou, remorseless corn,
On Angelina's toe.
AN ETERNAL POEM.
Your poem must ETERNAL be,
Dear sir, it can not fail,
For 'tis incomprehensible,
And wants both head and tail.
BAD POETS.
Swans sing before they die--'t were no bad thing;
Did certain persons die before they sing.
TO MR. ALEXANDRE, THE VENTRILOQUIST.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Of yore, in Old England, it was not thought good,
To carry two visages under one hood:
What should folks say to YOU? who have faces so plenty,