Anonymous British Poems

Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.
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'O where have you been, my long, long love,
This long seven years and mair?'
'O I'm come to seek my former vows
Ye graunted me before.'
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What a wonderful bird the frog are!
When he stands he sit almost;
When he hop he fly almost.
He ain't got no sense hardly;
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Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego's in bloom
Sometime when you take it for granted
You're the best qualified in the room,
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I KNOW my Love by his way of walking,
And I know my love by his way of talking,
And I know my love dressed in a suit of blue,
And if my Love leaves me, what will I do?
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The maidens came
When I was in my mother's bower;
I had all that I would.
The bailey beareth the bell away
The lily, the rose, the rose I lay.
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MISTRESS TOWL

There was an Old Woman named Towl
Who went out to Sea with her Owl,
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How beautiful the setting sun
Reposes o'er the wave!
Like Virtue, life's drear warfare done,
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It was in and about the Martinmas time,
When the greene leaves we a fallan,
That Sir John Grehme o' the west contrye
Fell in luve wi' Barbara Allan.
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The little cares that fretted me
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields, above the sea,
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