This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...arms around me, and a strange wild dream in my head, That she'd come by the early local, being anxious about the lad, And had seen him there on the metals, and the sight nigh drove her mad--She had seen him just as the engine of the Limited closed my view, And she'd leapt on the line and saved him just as the mail ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...arms around me, and a strange wild dream in my head, That she'd come by the early local, being anxious about the lad, And had seen him there on the metals, and the sight nigh drove her mad--She had seen him just as the engine of the Limited closed my view, And she'd leapt on the line and saved him just as the mail dashed through. She was back in the train in a second, and both were safe and sound--The moment they stopped at the station she ran here, and I was found With my eyes like a madman's glaring, and my face a ghastly white; I heard the boy, and I fainted, and I hadn't my wits that night. Who told me to do my duty? What voice was that on the wind? Was it fancy that brought it to me? or were there God's lips behind? If I hadn't a-done my duty--had I ventured to disobey--My bonny boy and his mother might have died by my hand that day, LITTLE JIM. Our little Jim Was such a limb His mother scarce could manage him. His eyes were blue, And looked you through, And seemed to say, "I'll have my way!" His age was six; His saucy tricks But made you smile, Though all the while You said, "You limb, You wicked Jim, Be quiet, do!" Poor little Jim! Our eyes are dim When soft and low we speak of him. No clatt'ring shoe Goes running through The silent room, Now wrapped in gloom: So still he lies, With fast-shut eyes, No need to say, Alas! to-day, "You little limb, You baby Jim, Be quiet, do!..". The Sisters: A. From "the Social Kaleidoscope." Ruth and Janet Oakley are the belles of the et"ijny ball. Every one says so. The men are unanimous, and "the ladies, though they point out certain slight defects from their point of view of female beauty, are still-willing to confess-"that, taken altogether, they are very pass...
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Add this copy of The Dagonet Reciter to cart. $32.38, very good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1925 by George Routledge & Sons.
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Seller's Description:
Used-Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Undated-probably 1920s. A tidy copy in tight binding. Contains The Dagonet Ballads; The Ballads of Babylon; The Lifeboat and other poems; Includes 'In the Workhouse, Christmas Day'-"It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse......" and other heart-wrenching verses. Get out the hankies.
