Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood

"'Twas in the middle of the night,     To sleep young William tried,     When Mary's ghost came stealing in,     And stood at his bedside."

"It's a shame, so it is, - men can't Let alone     Jobs as is Woman's right to do - and go about there Own -     Theirs Reforms enuff Alreddy wi"

"Farewell, farewell, to my mother's own daughter.     The child that she wet-nursed is lapp'd in the wave;     The Mussulman, coming to fish in t"

"The curse of Adam, the old curse of all,     Though I inherit in this feverish life     Of worldly toil, vain wishes, and hard strife,     And"

"The ocean heaves around us still With long and measured swell, The autumn gales our canvas fill, Our ship rides smooth and well. The broad Atlantic's"

"I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air— I have a rendez"