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A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day Thomas Love Peacock	The drunkard, who paid five shillings before, Shall now pay twenty shillings more, And mine host, if on Sabbath he dare unloose A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fragment Of A Poem. Alexander Pope	Content but for five shillings in the pound, Yearly defeated, yearly hopes they give, And all agree Sir Robert cannot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Albert and His Savings Marriott Edgar	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
ANARCHISTE DIPLOMATIQUE Joshua Omeke	arts, and ideas, Exchanged these commodities for shillings, Had bigger dreams for pence to lift their spirits, And before they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford Edwin Arlington Robinson	As he would add a shilling to more shillings, All most harmonious,—and out of his Miraculous inviolable increase Fills Ilion, Rome, or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brown's Tram Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	'Three shillings weekly will not be Too much - an equitable rise, Considering the trams,' wrote...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Courtship of Miles Standish, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Eighteen shillings a month, together with diet and pillage, And, like Caesar, I know the name of each of my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Days of 1908 Constantine P. Cavafy	Two or three shillings he made, more or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Devil's Walk On Earth, The Robert Southey	But the soles in the bill were ten shillings; Tell your master, quoth he, what I say; If he charges at this rate for all things, He must be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Disobedience Alan Alexander Milne	TO THE END OF THE TOWN - FORTY SHILLINGS...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Distracted Druggist Robert William Service	Two shillings is its price, and so Another bob you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Exodus Parthenidae Adam Lindsay Gordon	Are sold for fifty shillings apiece ; I'm sorry to part with the red dog, truly, At fifty shillings I call him cheap, But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Felicity William Watson	By some few shillings weekly had increased The earnings of her household, and she said: 'So now we are happy, having...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Pit Francis William Lauderdale Adams	We are well cursed and paid — Ten shillings a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lost Mr. Blake William Schwenck Gilbert	the commonplace half-crowns and shillings, So he took her to all the charity sermons, and if by any extraordinary chance there wasn't...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion. Satire II Edward Young	Can range aright his shillings, pounds, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mazie's Ghost Robert William Service	The Ritz put up a topping tea, But having only shillings three My smile was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Molony’s Lament William Makepeace Thackeray	She bought it of Misthress O'Grady, Eight shillings a yard tabinet, But now that the Coort is concluded, The divvle a yard will she get; I bet,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mrs Frances Haris's Petition Jonathan Swift	And I had in a purse seven pounds, four shillings, and sixpence, (besides farthings) in money and gold; So because I had been buying things for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mulligan's Mare Andrew Barton Paterson	They backed her for pounds and for shillings and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Leaving Mrs. Brown's Lodgings Sir Walter Scott	And where oats are twenty-five shillings a boll, they say; But all's one for that, since I must and will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
One Among So Many Francis William Lauderdale Adams	In the crush of the 'season' at ten shillings a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oranges And Lemons Leonard Leslie Brooke	You owe me ten shillings, Say the bells at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poor Honest Men Rudyard Kipling	Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But light your churchwarden And judge it according, When I've told you the troubles...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Recollections Of A Faded Beauty Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	For seven shillings, got dance and supper...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)