Limerick. “A Turk named Abdullah Ben Barum…”

Says Giles, my wife and I are two; Yet, faith! I know not why, Sir! Quoth, Jack, you’re ten, if I speak true, – She’s one, and you’re a cipher.

HOW charmed we pilgrims from the eager West, Where only life, and not its scene, is old, Beside the hearth of Chester’s inn at rest, Her ancient story to each other told!The holly-wreath and dial’s moon-orbed face,…

O, WALY, waly up the bank, And waly, waly down the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side, Where I and my love wont to gae.…

Слышны повсюду голоса «Останьтесь!» – и оно понятно: Взлетите вы на небеса И не вернётесь к нам обратно!Красавица, за строем строй…

NOW flowery summer comes again, And decks my native, bonnie plain, While feathered warblers swell the strain, Aroun’ the banks o’ Glaizart.…

When Mead reach’d the Styx, Pluto started and said, “Confound him! he ’s come to recover the dead.”[Imitated from Palladas. See No. cclxix.]

АВСТРАЛИЙСКАЯ НАРОДНАЯ БАЛЛАДАНеправый суд меня, друзья, Судил неумолимо, И вот теперь в оковах я Вдали страны родимой.Присяжных суд меня судил,…

Here lies the Reverend Jonathan Doe, Where he’s gone to I don’t know. If, haply to the realms above, Farewell to happiness and love.…