Once upon a midnight chilling, as I held my feet unwillingO'er a tub of scalding water, at a heat of ninety-four;
Nervously a toe in dipping, dripping, slipping, then out-skipping,
Suddenly there came a ripping whipping, at my chamber's ...
The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day,
Suddenly we heard a rattling, as of serious hosts a-battling, as they mingled in the fray
"What is that
" we cried, upstarting,...
Ere shall they not, who resolute
Times gloomy backward with judicious eyes;
And scanning right the practice of yore,
Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise
Delirious Bulldogs; -- echoing
My daughter, -- green as summer grass; --The long supine Plebeian ass,
The nasty crockery boring falls; --Tom-Moory Pathos; -- all things bare, --With such a turket
such a hen