 you've lost the feet Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms!" "O false and fickle Nelly Gray! I know why you refuse: Though I've no feet, some other man Is standing in my shoes. "I wish I ne'er had seen your...  Works - Page 152by Thomas Hood - 1871Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches." " Why, then," said she, "yon 've lost the feet Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms ! " " 0 false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : Though I Ve no feet, some other man Is... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now I " 9. "O false and fickle Nelly Gray I I know why you refuse: Though I've no feet — some other man Is standing in my shoes! 10. "I wish I ne'er had seen your face; But, now, a long farewell ! For you will be my death; — alas!... | |
 | Helen Ruth Bass, Diane Morrill - Education - 1998 - 132 pages
...love I did allow; But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now." "O false and fickle Nellie Gray! I know why you refuse; Though I've no feet, some other man Is standing in my shoes." And there he hung till he was dead As any nail in town; For, though distress had cut him up, It could... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Ballads - 1894 - 328 pages
...loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform ! " She said, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blithe and brave ; But I will never have a man With both...war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon you feats of arms ! " III. M " Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — Though... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 848 pages
...Nelly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call, I left my legs, In Badajos's breaches ! " " ud slowly forms the firmer mind, Treasuring the look it cannot find, The words that ! " " 0, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — Though I've no feet — some other... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - English poetry - 1888 - 790 pages
...Nelly Gray ! For all your cheering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches!" "Why, then," said she, "you've lost the feet Of legs...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms 1" "O, false and fickle Nelly Gray ; I know why you refuse : — Though I've no feet — some other... | |
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