Arthur Clement Hilton Poems

By Algernon Charles Sin-Burn
Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed,
Whence camest to dazzle our eyes?
With thy bosom bespangled and banded
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I've really done enough of sums,
I've done so very many,
That now instead of doing sum
I'd rather not do any.
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By Edward Leary.
There was an old fellow of Peterhouse,
Who said, "You could not find a neater house
Than our new Combination-Room
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By Louisa CarolineN.B. -- A Vulture is a rapacious and obscene bird, whichdestroys its prey by plucking it limb from limb with its powerfulbeak and talons.A Husbandman is a man in a low position of life, who supportshimself by the use of the plough. -- (Johnson's Dictionary).
The rain was raining cheerfully,
As if it had been May;
The Senate-House appeared inside
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Which I wish to remark,
And my language is plain,
That for plots that are dark
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By Rosina Christetti
Ding dong, Ding dong,
There goes the Gong,
Dick, come along,
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