Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: V. Nonsense | | Nonsense | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | GOOD reader, if you e’er have seen, | |
| When Phœbus hastens to his pillow, | |
| The mermaids with their tresses green | |
| Dancing upon the western billow; | |
| If you have seen at twilight dim, | 5 |
| When the lone spirit’s vesper hymn | |
| Floats wild along the winding shore, | |
| The fairy train their ringlets weave | |
| Glancing along the spangled green; | |
| I you have seen all this, and more— | 10 |
| God bless me! what a deal you ’ve seen! | | | | |
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