Anonymous British Poems

Men have done brave deeds,
And bards have sung them well:
I of good George Nidiver
Now the tale will tell.
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My name was William Kidd,
When I sailed,
When I sailed,
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He leaves the earth, and says, enough and more
Unto thee have I given, oh Earth.- For all
With hand free and ungrudging gave I up,-
But now I leave thy pale hopes and dear pains,
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Vacation's gone - and pleas and strife
Begin to blossom into life;
And Westminster is overflown
With wit peculiarly its own;
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This 29th of February
I'll take - let's see - to keep me merry,
An invent'ry of what I'm worth,
In goods, and chattels, and so forth.
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Far from the battle shock, fate has fast bound thee,
Chained to the rugged rock, waves dash around thee,
Instead of the trumpet's sound, seabirds are shrieking;
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In Memory of
Hannah Margaret,
Daughter of Matthew and Hannah B- - ,
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Man, thee behoveth oft to have this in mind,
That thou givest with thine hand, that thou shalt find;
For widows be slothful, and children be unkind,
Executors be covetous, and keep all that they find
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Whoso him bethoft
Inwardly and oft,
How hard it were to flit
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Oh! 'tis a touching thing to make one weep;
A tender infant with its curtain'd eye,
Breathing as it would neither live nor die,
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