FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28  
29   30   31   32   33   >>  
nyhow, it's a fact. * * * * * "AH!" exclaimed our dear old Mrs. R., "I'm fond of high-class music. For many years I've heard my musical friends talking about 'SHOOLBRED'S Unfinished Symphony.' Why doesn't he get it finished? When was it ordered? But there--I know geniuses are always unpunctual." * * * * * THE INEVITABLE. (_As Illustrated by recent Political, Social, and other Public "Functions."_) Say you'd get up an "Inaugural Meeting," _Anything_ "forming," or _Anyone_ "greeting," If you'd have guests in their tankards their nose bury, Ruddy with mirth, you must put up Lord ROSEBERY. If facts and statistics your minds you will task with, He must be followed--of course--by young ASQUITH. Q.C. and canny Earl, Earl and 'cute Q.C., gents! There you've your "Popular Programme" _in nuce_, gents! * * * * * TO MY RIVAL. How I loved her, blindly, madly! Sighing sadly, Feeling hurt If I did not see her daily. Oh, how gaily She could flirt! Flirt with me, or flirt with others, With my brothers Just as well, How I could be such a duffer So to suffer, I can't tell. Then you came, played tennis finely, Danced divinely, Sang as well; Half Adonis, half Apollo, Beat me hollow. Such a swell! How I hated you, so clever! _You_ were never Thought a bore! When I saw you so romantic I was frantic; How I swore! I've recovered. Is she not a Child that's got a Newer toy? From the first she thought she'd booked you; Now she's hooked you. Wish you joy! I'll forgive you altogether,-- She'll see whether I shall care,-- Shake your hand and gaily greet you, When I
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28  
29   30   31   32   33   >>  



Top keywords:

suffer

 

Feeling

 

Sighing

 
blindly
 

brothers

 

played

 

duffer

 
thought
 

booked

 

hooked


forgive

 

altogether

 
recovered
 

Apollo

 

hollow

 
Adonis
 

finely

 

Danced

 

divinely

 

romantic


frantic
 

Thought

 
clever
 

tennis

 

ASQUITH

 

finished

 

ordered

 

Symphony

 
SHOOLBRED
 

Unfinished


INEVITABLE
 

Illustrated

 

unpunctual

 

geniuses

 
talking
 

exclaimed

 

musical

 

friends

 
recent
 

Political


ROSEBERY

 

statistics

 

Programme

 

Popular

 
Inaugural
 

Meeting

 

Anything

 

Functions

 
Social
 

Public