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Gabriel's Grub Song

19 May 2023

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Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one,
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done;
A stone at the head, a stone at the feet;
A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat;
Rank grass overhead, and damp clay around,
Brave lodging for one, these, in holy ground! 

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Best Poems of Charles Dickens
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Works of famous english writer Charles Dickens in poetry.
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The Song Of The Wreck

19 April 2023
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 The wind blew high, the waters raved,  A ship drove on the land,  A hundred human creatures saved  Kneel’d down upon the sand.  Three-score were drown’d, three-score were thrown  Upon the black

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Little Nell's Funeral

19 April 2023
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And now the bell, — the bell She had so often heard by night and day  And listened to with solemn pleasure,        E'en as a living voice, — Rung its remorseless toll for her,  So yo

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A Child's Hymn

19 April 2023
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Hear my prayer, O heavenly Father, Ere I lay me down to sleep; Bid Thy angels, pure and holy, Round my bed their vigil keep. My sins are heavy, but Thy mercy Far outweighs them, every

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The Ivy Green

21 April 2023
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 Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone dec

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Lucy's song

21 April 2023
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 How beautiful at eventide To see the twilight shadows pale, Steal o'er the landscape, far and wide, O'er stream and meadow, mound and dale! How soft is Nature's calm repose

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Squire Norton's Song

18 May 2023
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 The child and the old man sat alone In the quiet, peaceful shade Of the old green boughs, that had richly grown In the deep, thick forest glade. It was a soft and pleasant sound, That

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George Edmund's Song

18 May 2023
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 Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around he here; Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear! How like the hopes of childhood's day, Thick clust'ring on the bough!

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A Fine Old English Gentleman

19 May 2023
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I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate; When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate On ev'ry mistress, pi

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Gabriel's Grub Song

19 May 2023
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Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one, A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; A stone at the head, a stone at the feet; A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat; Rank grass overhead,

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The Hymn Of The Wiltshire Laborers

20 May 2023
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O God! who by Thy prophet's hand Didst smite the rocky brake, Whence water came, at Thy command, Thy people's thirst to slake; Strike, now, upon this granite wall, Stern, obdurate, and

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